gentle
adjective
kindly; amiable.
had been gentling
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past perfect progressiveof gentle.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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Dandy Jack had been training horses, and Old Colonial had been gentling bullocks; so we had a choice of draggers for the plough.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
Already, north of the Sierra the country had been gentling.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
