had been mobbing
- past perfect progressive of mob.
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 Mitford, Bertram