ape
noun
any member of the superfamily Hominoidea, the two extant branches of which are the lesser apes (gibbons) and the great apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans).
had been aping
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past perfect progressiveof ape.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
His rashness restored me to some sense of the farcical heroism which I had been aping.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
