reckon
verb (used with object)
to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
had been reckoning
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past perfect progressiveof reckon.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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Evidently they had been reckoning their position and nervously gauging their gasoline.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pearl had found that he had been reckoning wrong in regard to the movements of the Goldwing.
From All Adrift or The Goldwing Club by Optic, Oliver
He had been reckoning on that; he had seen her steadily failing, and knew that she could not go on indefinitely under such privations.
From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Fischer, Anton Otto
But we had been reckoning without our hosts.
From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Collingwood, Harry
I told her I had been reckoning that she––” “Cared, yes?”
From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)
