gravitate
verb (used without object)
to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
had been gravitating
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past perfect progressiveof gravitate.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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Lately, he said, he had been gravitating toward “pan-proto-psychism”—the idea that consciousness might be “a fundamental property of the universe” upon which the brain somehow draws.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
It was to China's great northwest, where she apparently worked hard to restore Chinese influence in areas which for some time had been gravitating toward Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this the thought of mankind had been gravitating, and in Jewish and in Greek thought, conduct was more and more the centre of everything.
From The Jesus of History by T. R. Glover
It had not escaped the notice of Fred, and since his entrance he had been gravitating toward it.
From The Scarlet Car by Richard Harding Davis
Possibly, unknown to the girls, she had been gravitating towards it ever since her principal's hasty war wedding.
From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by John Campbell
