mob
noun
a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
had been mobbing
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past perfect progressiveof mob.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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Soon they halted just before the waggons, and a shout of sibongo went up from the turbulent crowd who had been mobbing and threatening us but a little while since.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
