declare
verb (used with object)
to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms.
had been declaring
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past perfect progressiveof declare.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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That had been the honor of his fathers, the honor which he had been declaring himself too advanced to accept blindly.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
The Americans had been declaring, for several years, that they would take the provinces.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
These were the men and women who had listened to him gladly in church, who now wished to hear more of the new truths he had been declaring.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
As only the moment before he had been declaring himself the son of a De Raincy, this could hardly be.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
