glow
noun
a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
had been glowing
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past perfect progressiveof glow.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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These words quite destroyed the hope that of late had been glowing within her.
From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
And then— In that moment Nepeese felt the pressure of the rock on her shoulder, and into the eyes that had been glowing softly at Baree there shot a sudden wild look of horror.
From Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
She remembered that Mrs. Todd's geraniums had been glowing in the window that winter day when David had shouted his triumphant news.
From The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
If the town had been glowing the night before over the disappearance of Marcia Lawrence, it was fairly blazing now over this new mystery.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Some of them appear as if but yesterday they had been glowing with heat.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
