picnic
noun
an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
had been picnicking
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past perfect progressiveof picnic.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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Complete silence fell over Hyde Park as people who had been picnicking and chatting for hours, stood and watched the queen's coffin brought to Westminster Abbey.
From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2022
Representative Chuck Fleischmann, Republican of Tennessee, did not emerge from it looking as though he had been picnicking.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2011
