had been coiling
- past perfect progressive of coil.
Example Sentences
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Long lines of sawdust, which had been coiling and whirling in the eddies, or stretching across the black seething water, were caught in the ice, or blown about with the powdered snow over its surface.
From John Ward, Preacher by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell