lunch
noun
a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
had been lunching
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past perfect progressiveof lunch.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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The investigator now visited Turner, an artist, who had been lunching with her parents on Glendonald Road when the fire began.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2019
He had been lunching with them in Clevedon Square, when the jeweller's assistant was announced, just as Lady Isabel was rising from the luncheon-table.
From Consequences by E. M. Delafield
After the governor had been lunching he lost that sense of decorum which from long habit should make it almost as impossible to speak loudly in a shop as in a church.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
Hester, who had been lunching with her, had gone shopping into Markborough with the schoolroom maid, and was afterward to meet Sarah and Lulu at a garden party in the Cathedral Close.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Fallaray had been lunching with George Lytham at his rooms in the Albany.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
