blossom
noun
the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
had been blossoming
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past perfect progressiveof blossom.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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Even before the purchase, however, the two Prairie flowers had been blossoming with unprecedented brilliance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The garden of Norhala was a wreckage of uprooted and splintered trees and torn masses of what had been blossoming verdure.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
