meditate
verb (used without object)
to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
had been meditating
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past perfect progressiveof meditate.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 set she spoke again, saying that throughout it she had been meditating on the feeling of “never being close enough.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
What was the genesis for "The Department of Truth"? Was it a bolt of lightning or something that you had been meditating on for some time?
From Salon ● May 15, 2021
“I don’t go by mood or circumstance. I just do it like brushing my teeth,” Mr. Lamoureux told me when we checked in after I had been meditating for a couple weeks.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2019
At the time Nick died, I had been meditating for some time, reading about Buddhist history and practice, and his death strengthened my trust in the practice.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2018
As a matter of fact he had been meditating whether to ask her to accompany him, but had decided not to.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Bertram Mitford
