course
noun
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
had been coursing
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past perfect progressiveof course.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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The incident added to the nastiness that had been coursing through this series since Chris Kreider’s collision with the Canadiens’ Carey Price in Game 1.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2014
Mr. Sellars drew on a fanciful, experimental tradition that had been coursing through America’s theater and new-music scenes for decades but was largely missing from its opera.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2012
Soulé, with his gun and game-bag, had been coursing over the hills three miles back, since four o'clock.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
The tears had been coursing down Mary Louise's cheeks, but now a glad look crossed her face.
From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
In the deep cut of the glen there was very little snow, only a few veins and patches here and there, threading and seaming the steep, as if a white-footed hare had been coursing about.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
