people
noun
persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general.
had been peopling
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past perfect progressiveof people.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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Why, actually, she had been frightened of the dark; like a child she had been peopling the void with the demons of fancy.
From The Strange Case of Cavendish by Randall Parrish
