beckon
verb (used with or without object)
to signal, summon, or direct by a gesture of the head or hand.
had been beckoning
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past perfect progressiveof beckon.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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As Kaizer lay dying, he said he saw the woman in black who had been beckoning to him in his troubled dreams.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2014
There was not much in a man who had made a failure of even sheepherding to bind a maid to him against the allurements of the world that had been beckoning her so long.
From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
Was this the girl who had been beckoning him on?
From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins
In a few moments more the boat darted into the cove, and the boys recognized Captain Littleton in the gentleman who had been beckoning to them.
From Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway by Oliver Optic
Beside him rode the adventure girl who had been beckoning him out of the woods of doubt and ignorance, the girl who had colored his dreams up on lonely Wild-cat Hill.
From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins
