cable
noun
a heavy, strong rope.
had been cabling
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past perfect progressiveof cable.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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Doria told Barbara that the editor had been cabling frenziedly.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
And now poor Pat was gone and Prime’s father had been cabling for him to return home; 312 but there was that awkward matter about the desertion.
From Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters by Charles King
