ascend
verb (used without object)
to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise.
had been ascending
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past perfect progressiveof ascend.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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With that speech, and the humility Gurley displayed during interviews immediately afterward, a star that had been ascending suddenly shot across the national sports landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2016
I had been ascending one of the lateral gorges of the valley, and had left the river somewhere to the north.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
At right angles to the valley they had been ascending, and which here opened out into a wide basin barred in front by the cliff referred to, ran another similar defile.
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford
The trail had been ascending at a gentle grade, and we had a slight change of scene—desert hill instead of desert plain.
From Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister by Helen Cody Wetmore
Gone were the cheers that had been ascending from the brigade.
From Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
