ooze
verb (used without object)
(of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
had been oozing
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past perfect progressiveof ooze.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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We gave a sigh of relief, as we greeted the Good Man, for all our courage, like the immortal Bob Acres's, had been oozing from our finger ends.
From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton
Well, the evidence was all for it, as Gonzales had reminded us—that cactus had been oozing.
From The Holes Around Mars by Jerome Bixby
Fouchette's self-confidence had been oozing away in the same ratio as she was nearing her journey's end.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
Though it was moist with the drops that had been oozing over it, it had a burning heat.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
I stooped to look what it was, and the mystery was solved at once: there was a hole in the bottom of the tube, and the mercury had been oozing out.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
