hasten
verb (used without object)
had been hastening
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past perfect progressiveof hasten.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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Mrs. Crymble had been hastening to the door, the sound of her suitor's wagon-wheels summoning her.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
Since 1800, Neptune, in his orbit from F to E, had been hastening Uranus in his orbit D from C to B, and also drawing it farther from the sun.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren
All this time his brother Robert had been hastening along in pursuit of the woman who had withdrawn from the scene to avoid the exposure and complete overthrow which would have resulted had she remained.
From The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
These were the pearl oysters, already mentioned, which had been hastening to dissolution and decomposition, by the heat of the hold.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
While they talked, they had been hastening forward, and now they scrambled hastily up to the bridge deck, where they found everyone but the engine-room crew assembled.
From The Pirate Shark by Fred J. Arting
