free
adjective
enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery.
had been freeing
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past perfect progressiveof free.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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Ms. Dalley-Smith said that the experience of working on “Histoire” had been freeing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2018
Another wrench set my right arm free; and then, clutching the loosened coils, I unwound them with as much rapidity, as if I had been freeing myself from the embrace of a serpent!
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
All this time he had been freeing himself from the ropes with which he was imperfectly bound.
From The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The inspector called up the two policemen, who had been freeing the concierge and going through the rooms on the ground-floor.
From Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
