had been flourishing
- past perfect progressive of flourish.
Example Sentences
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Plowed and fenced and ran domestic livestock over what had been flourishing camas meadows, medicinal herbs and berries, carefully managed by Native people for harvest.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
And the animals and microbes there had been flourishing for billions of years, perhaps longer than life in the terrestrial world.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018
The Lyme disease bacterium had been flourishing for months and had entered my brain and central nervous system.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2015
Despite missing its starting back court because of injury, Maryland had been flourishing most of the season without a true point guard, but the Blue Devils exposed that deficiency for the second straight game.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2013
On the other hand, Belgian industries, which had been flourishing through the strict embargo placed upon the import of British goods, were now threatened with British competition.
From History of Holland by Edmundson, George
