desolate
adjective
barren or laid waste; devastated.
had been desolating
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past perfect progressiveof desolate.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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No doubt the revolt had had some obscure connection with the horrible excesses of the Jacquerie which at the same moment had been desolating Paris.
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
