had been parading
- past perfect progressive of parade.
Example Sentences
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Isleworth Crown Court heard Jamalvatan had been "parading as a straight-laced PhD student who was looking after his auntie and mother, which couldn't be further from the truth".
From BBC ● May 21, 2021
So many of them had been parading to the stage early in the first round that fans might have thought they stumbled into a Fashion Week Big and Tall show.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
Then the ward, who has been in love with Lukas ever since the picture started, breaks her betrothal to a young collegian whom she had been parading to spur her foster-father's affections.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some wretch had erased the two final letters, and I had been parading, all the evening, labeled, "Light Infant!"
From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf
"We had been parading, when your signal for a pilot called me too suddenly away for me to have time to lay aside this dress, this coat which my grandfather wore at Bunker Hill."
From The Boy Patriot by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
