regale
verb (used with object)
to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
had been regaling
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past perfect progressiveof regale.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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He had been regaling his fiancee with the details of an all-you-can-eat dinner he was beginning to regret.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Taking the subway down to the Bridge, he wedged up the steps between two foreigners who had been regaling themselves with garlic, and looked wistfully at Loft's.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
Céline had been unusually garrulous, and had been regaling her mistress with descriptions of the great people, and the magnificent toilets she had seen, while with some of her former miladis.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.
He was redolent of the stables, where he had been regaling himself with the company of his fellow-creatures the horses ever since breakfast.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne
This was a little parlour, where the Captain of musqueteers had been regaling himself for the last hour over a jorum of ale, in solitary rumination.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.
