lope
verb (used without object)
to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
had been loping
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past perfect progressiveof lope.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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Then the gray King began to run as if before he had been loping.
From Wildfire by Zane Grey
