perch
noun
a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
had been perching
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past perfect progressiveof perch.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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Seagulls had been perching on the boom; there was a mess on the top of the cabin and the floor of the cockpit, and he stepped to the side to miss it.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
"I'll stir up the animals," cried Bess, hopping off her bed, where she had been perching.
From Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Annie Roe Carr
And he laid his plump, yellow-white fingers, on which the canary-birds had been perching ten minutes before, upon the formidable brute's head, and looked him straight in the eyes.
From The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Think not, therefore, that Shakespeare, ere he wrote “To be or not to be,” had been perching on the tree and warbling right gladly all his days.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Ivan Panin
