heap
noun
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile.
had been heaping
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past perfect progressiveof heap.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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For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people.
From Time Magazine Archive
A crack in the gable end let in a sift of snow that had been heaping up a lonely little drift on the bare floor.
From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Irving Bacheller
Father Balbi, though for the last hour he had been heaping reproaches on his friend's rashness, was less of a coward than the spy, and as the time had come to start he followed Casanova.
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
Like Thor himself, he knew the minute to be one in which he could work off a thousand unpaid scores that had been heaping themselves up since childhood.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
She had been heaping up riches, and had not known who should gather them.
From The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
