bellow
verb (used without object)
to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
had been bellowing
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past perfect progressiveof bellow.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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The whole week before coming to Paris, Khrushchev had been bellowing like a wounded rogue elephant over the U2's invasion of Russian airspace.
From Time Magazine Archive
For forty years he had been bellowing against despots and existing order, and, for the Duke of Fort Canibas, he typified "Reform!"
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
With the Athenian at his side, he swung his horse into the street and dashed upon the nearest of the Scyths, a giant whose voice had been bellowing encouragement to his companions.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller
While he was looking at the Indian, an angry bull, which had been bellowing and pawing up the ground, suddenly charged the Indian.
From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor
The student also saw the instrument that had been bellowing forth those infernal tones, which he had been fancying he had heard somewhere before.
From The Tiger Hunter by Mayne Reid
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