cast
verb (used with object)
to throw or hurl; fling.
had been casting
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past perfect progressiveof cast.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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Karon Hylton had been casting about for a direction in life, but that suddenly changed in July with the birth of his daughter, his father said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2020
By the summer, with a full return to combat looking remote, Ms. Duckworth had been casting about for her next “mission,” she said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
Its writer, Justin Parkinson, had been casting around for “news features and zeitgeisty articles” from the open-plan expanses of New Broadcasting House, London, four glassy floors above its newsroom.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2016
If I had been casting it, that's the direction I would have urged them to go in.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2010
I had been casting about in my mind how I could break it gently to him; but I was always backward in speech, and I could think of nothing better than this.
From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
