recount
verb (used with object)
to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
had been recounting
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past perfect progressiveof recount.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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She had hardly got downstairs when Robert came in from the Green, where he had been recounting the experiences of the last seance.
From Queen Lucia by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
The author, with dry, white lips, had been recounting a series of sordid symptoms, and, as the recital grew, their sordidness seemed suddenly to strike him with a mighty disgust.
From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe
And the lank, haggard youth laughed merrily, as if he had been recounting a series of the happiest adventures.
From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Sancho was not sorry to be dismissed, and he gladly returned to his pallet, little dreaming of the mischief he had done by the mixture of truth and exaggeration that he had been recounting.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore
Bryany had been recounting his exploits as a card.
From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold
