partake
verb (used without object)
to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed byin ).
had been partaking
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past perfect progressiveof partake.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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For a long time, Siddhartha had been partaking in the discussions of the wise men, practising debate with Govinda, practising with Govinda the art of reflection, the service of meditation.
From Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
While looking around to see if he could discover his family, he beheld a river of water, which ran along near the tree of whose fruit he had been partaking.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
The men swung themselves in the saddles as unconcerned as though they had been partaking of lunch and suspected no enemy to be on the lookout for them.
From The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys by John De Morgan
George coloured, and his spirits sank as his eyes fell on the scanty fare of which he himself had been partaking.
From The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed
“The block!” replied the fiery Sir Frederick, who had been partaking rather freely of his own wine.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
