molest
verb (used with object)
to make indecent sexual advances to.
had been molesting
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past perfect progressiveof molest.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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Everyone else Greta knew had been molesting their trust funds since prep school.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 2, 2012
At one place canoeing on Saskatchewan we heard of a huge black bear that had been molesting some new ranches.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The maritime community was not greatly in sympathy with his suppression of the French minister's plans, and with some reason, for British privateers had been molesting our vessels all along our coasts and distant waters.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
A strong tribe had arrived soon after my departure and, in conjunction with those natives whom we found there, it had been molesting the camp during the whole of the night.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
All through the third century they had been molesting the provinces of the Balkan Peninsula by their incessant raids, as we have already had occasion to relate.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
