had been aching
- past perfect progressive of ache.
Example Sentences
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Something in Montaigne’s voice, the particular texture of its introspection, opened a vein that had been aching to pop.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2014
The Deseret News, which had been aching to even the score with the Tribune,* knew just how to react: it plastered self-congratulations all over the paper.
From Time Magazine Archive
In her resentment it had seemed to her that by very silence she had made herself party to that slur upon the man she loved, and she had been aching fiercely to repel it.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie
So his heart was filled with that mortal love for which it had been aching and perishing.
From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
"No she warn't, either," said the landlady, who for some minutes had been aching to speak.
From The English Orphans by Holmes, Mary Jane
