journey
noun
a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip.
had been journeying
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past perfect progressiveof journey.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, but for their cowardly inactivity, their charges might by now be safe in the seaport toward which they had been journeying.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
It swam directly to the shore whither he had been journeying, and landed him gently among the rushes.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
It was toward this rendezvous that Pachuca had been journeying when he stopped to raid the Athens mining camp.
From Across the Mesa by Henry Clarence Pitz
He had, of course, lost all bearing now, but he soon found that they had been journeying eastward since leaving the coast.
From The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman
Three years had passed, and all this time the third volume of the "Greenland Lawsuits" had been journeying from one publishing house to another.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton
