depict
verb (used with object)
had been depicting
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past perfect progressiveof depict.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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He had been depicting a flight and no one who knew David could imagine him in flight.
From The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart
