fantasize
verb (used without object)
to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed byabout ).
had been fantasizing
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past perfect progressiveof fantasize.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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In 1960, Toby and her husband, Dan, were cinema buffs with two little children who had been fantasizing about opening a bookstore, perhaps somewhere up in New Hampshire.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 6, 2018
The six teens encircling Norman Brown had been fantasizing about their freedom from the beige-walled youth incarceration center in Maryland.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2017
