flare
verb (used without object)
to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
had been flaring
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past perfect progressiveof flare.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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Fricka's spittle criticism was the outcome of a tiff that had been flaring ever since Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
One would have thought hundreds of paraffin-lamps had been flaring and smoking in that hole for days.
From Youth, a Narrative by Joseph Conrad
The wind had been flaring a steady torrid white flame.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The hatred that had been flaring in his head suddenly faded, and the heavy thing that had been his heart for as long as he could remember, became light as thistledown.
From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot
This new flame was as the latter in comparison to match-flames that had been flaring in the doctor's eyes.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
