converge
verb (used without object)
to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
had been converging
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past perfect progressiveof converge.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 example, the fertility rates of women over 30 and under 30 had been converging.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Since midnight they had been converging on the new R. A. F. airdrome at Mildenhall, 60 miles from London.
From Time Magazine Archive
Starr's problem is that their stories had been converging for a week.
From Time Magazine Archive
In special trains and oxcarts Madrasis and outlying villagers had been converging on Karaikudi to watch the Prime Minister lay the cornerstone of India's first Electro-Chemical Research Institute.
From Time Magazine Archive
However in 1900 he was killed at Kussuri near the lower Shari, by the combined forces of three French expeditions which had been converging from the Congo, the Sahara and the Niger.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
