incline
verb (used without object)
to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
had been inclining
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past perfect progressiveof incline.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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Latterly she had been inclining more and more to the belief that the women had something to do with it as well.
From A Second Coming by Richard Marsh
For many centuries the religion of the priests and scribes had been inclining to pantheism.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
He replied in the affirmative, and observed that he had been inclining to that opinion for some time.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
