impart
verb (used with object)
had been imparting
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past perfect progressiveof impart.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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Presently Count Bunker, who had been imparting the most terrific particulars of former interviews with the Wraith to the younger Galloshes, remarked that he must pass the time by overtaking some pressing correspondence.
From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
Her face was crimson, and she winked hard to keep the tears of vexed shame back—for the faces of the loungers told her that Tommy had been imparting other confidences.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
She made him stay to dinner, and Du Meresq, who thought things were looking up, gladly dismissed his Hansom, which had been imparting an unwonted appearance of dissipation to the locality for the last hour.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
Meanwhile, Amelia Simpson had been imparting a budget of Oldchester news.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
