ebb
noun
had been ebbing
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past perfect progressiveof ebb.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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Yet by that time their strength had been ebbing away, and many of them had fallen.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs
It had been ebbing for nearly three hours and a half.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
By the time we worked down to the bar the tide had been ebbing for an hour and a half.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
What irked him was the thought that while he had followed the mill-round of duty, strength had been ebbing away and had left him useless.
From Major Vigoureux by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
“So far as we can calculate from the tables, the tide had been ebbing for about two hours,” he said.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
