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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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
His eyes had been glowing when he had first come on the scene, prepared to open battle.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
Harold, whose face had been glowing with enthusiasm, looked up and saw his sister.
From Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life by Caroline Austin
Marguerite turned her look, which had been glowing with awakened feeling, on her pale and still motionless daughter.
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
Where there had been glowing pride there was now bitter savage hate.
From The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail by Ralph Connor
