enlarge
verb (used with object)
to make larger; increase in extent, bulk, or quantity; add to.
had been enlarging
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past perfect progressiveof enlarge.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 mixing on terms of equality with a class much above hers, he had been enlarging the scope of his observation, he had been deepening his experience.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
The deacon had been enlarging in lofty strain on the power and position of the clergy.
From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Robert Ornsby
Evidently he had been enlarging it for the winter.
From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell
Mrs. Connor had been enlarging, among sympathizing friends, on the hardship of her having to support her husband's child when he did so little himself for his family.
From Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword by Agnes Maule Machar
