droop
verb (used without object)
to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
had been drooping
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past perfect progressiveof droop.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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For more than a year, the wings of high-flying People Express had been drooping under the heat of intense competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Isabel had been drooping like a strange bird, since she came to the Alms House, and Mary knew that it would cheer her to see her poor mother in that calm sleep.
From The Old Homestead by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
On the topmost tower of the castle the royal standard, which had been drooping against the flagstaff, filled out and waved freely in the breeze.
From The Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
As the speaker's voice ceased, little Susannah Hoxie's head, which had been drooping lower and lower, finally found a resting-place, and was encircled by her mother's arm.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
I trained the vines which had been drooping round our old house,--the gray time-worn house; the "natural-colored house," the neighbors called it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various
