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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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
After the wide and lonely extent of plains that we had been journeying over, our camp among the trees seemed a cosy shelter.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt
As if he had been journeying through a wilderness of scorching sand, all that was left of the Archangel has long since evaporated.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
Thus far we had been journeying through Russian territory without a passport.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen
The sun, which had been journeying down the western sky, now touched the top of Lonely Mountain, and immediately all its side was robed in purple velvet, and its long summit tipped with gold.
From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson
