mope
verb (used without object)
to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
had been moping
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past perfect progressiveof mope.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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It was raining out, and the twins had been moping around all afternoon.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
And Shirley had been moping for weeks over the loss of the World Series.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
His superior had been moping around the ship for many days with melancholy spelled in every line of his face.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
When she came back from Germany, she was keen on art, but apparently had been moping about something.
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by J. Irwin Brown
At last, one afternoon, after Taka had been moping for hours in deeper gloom than usual, I impulsively held up a hand-glass before him.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
