exude
verb (used without object)
to come out gradually in drops, as sweat, through pores or small openings; ooze out.
had been exuding
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past perfect progressiveof exude.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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Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her tone couldn’t have held more wonder and censure if Zooey’s pores had been exuding crude oil.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
All that happened, however, was that at the end of that time the "blood," which had been exuding in drops all the while, dried up.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas H. Huxley
