buffet
had been buffeting
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past perfect progressiveof buffet.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 library door was hastily flung open, and Norman Lovel came in, pale as death, though he had been buffeting the winds, and with terrible excitement in his eyes.
From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
I had been buffeting for some time against the current of population setting through Fleet Street.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
