had been aping
- past perfect progressive of ape.
Example Sentences
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“I saw a baby’s mantle of that peculiar green, and it struck me that some farmer’s wife had been aping little Julia’s.”
From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
His rashness restored me to some sense of the farcical heroism which I had been aping.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
