love
noun
a strong feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, such as for a parent, child, friend, or pet.
had been loving
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past perfect progressiveof love.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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However, Charlie had been loving the "food and attention," Lucy said and was just as friendly as she was 10 years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Mr. Awuah-Darko said that he had initially convinced himself that his encounters with Mr. Wiley had been loving.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2024
Rosberg, last year’s winner in Japan from pole, said he had been loving the battle between the rivals.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2017
It was revealed to Tregarva that God had been loving him while he was yet a bad man.
From Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley
Like many another man, he found that he had been loving an ideal—a creation of his own mind.
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford
