knead
verb (used with object)
to work (dough, clay, etc.) into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding, and stretching.
had been kneading
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past perfect progressiveof knead.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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Her mother had been kneading dough that morning, and she paused in her work to look out the kitchen window at the Wood.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
He had been kneading a small mass for the purpose.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The pink in Rose’s pretty face turned as white as the flour she had been kneading.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
The manitou breathed twice, and life came into the figure, which the Beau-man had been kneading into the shape of a handsome youth.
From Fort Amity by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
