breakfast
noun
the first meal of the day; morning meal.
had been breakfasting
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past perfect progressiveof breakfast.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 passed through the room where we had been breakfasting.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
Another and another branch were successively divested of their foliage, until the little tree looked as if a flock of goats had been breakfasting upon it.
From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
They had met in front of the Giappone, the fashionable restaurant of Leghorn, where Gasparo had been breakfasting with a couple of his friends.
From Vestigia Vol. I. by George Fleming
The countess and her youngest daughter had been breakfasting together in the elder lady's sitting-room, and were now seated in a very graceful and well-arranged deshabille.
From The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
On looking at him narrowly, they perceived that he had been breakfasting elsewhere than at Bicetre.
From Colonel Chabert by Ellen Marriage
