conjure
verb (used with object)
to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.
had been conjuring
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past perfect progressiveof conjure.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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For the moment she could not remember all those worse horrors which her imagination had been conjuring up, and from which she was actually saved.
From Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn by Rosa Mulholland
The little girl's lively imagination had been conjuring up all sorts of terrible adventures through which her hero might be passing, and she looked anxiously at him and his boat for signs of a fray.
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
We again began to be afraid that, overcome by the recollections which he had been conjuring up, he might not continue his narrative.
From Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days by William Henry Giles Kingston
During the day the rudiments of imagination which made him a musician had been conjuring up the possible results of his expedition.
From Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe
