desire
verb (used with object)
had been desiring
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past perfect progressiveof desire.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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In Ward 7, construction crews remade the forlorn intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road NE and broke ground for Skyland Town Center, a project that community leaders had been desiring for decades.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2014
When Sir William should come, however, I would open my eyes, for I had been desiring to see him since I saw his rods and guns.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Now this was what Arthur Miles had been desiring for twenty minutes past, and with all his soul.
From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
