marry
verb (used with object)
to take in marriage.
had been marrying
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past perfect progressiveof marry.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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Valley View gossip had been marrying him off for the last thirty years, although never before to Adelia Williams.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Shaykh Mohammed Afnán had been marrying his son; and the tale of camels came in slowly enough.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
And there he celebrated his nuptials with as much pomp and grandeur as if he had been marrying the daughter of the King of France.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Poor things," I said one day, in answer to an outburst of indignation from him, after he had been marrying one of our servants at the eleventh hour, "I am so sorry for them.
From The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth
