lavish
adjective
expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion.
had been lavishing
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past perfect progressiveof lavish.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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After the fish, Valentina Mihailovna, who had been lavishing all her charms on Solomin, said to her husband in English that she noticed their visitor did not drink wine and might perhaps like some beer.
From Virgin Soil by R. S. Townsend
Down these he hurried, and, seating himself on a rock, enjoyed the spectacle of this stupendous object, which, ever since the creation, had been lavishing its magnificence upon the desert, unseen by civilized man.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
Whatever time that Brenton took for visiting the Opdykes, quite as a matter of course he had been lavishing on Reed.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
All this time, he had been lavishing his entire stock of pity upon Reed.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
With a little assistance from Paul, the stock of doughnuts on which he had been lavishing encomiums, diminished rapidly.
From Paul Prescott's Charge by Horatio Alger
