remark
verb (used with object)
to say casually, as in making a comment.
had been remarking
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past perfect progressiveof remark.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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The Street had been remarking, for a year, that Norcross was growing old.
From The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin
So she went on in her neutral tone, as if she had been remarking on baby's robes.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Not only had he failed to distinguish either of her own girls, but he had, as Mrs. Tappitt said, made himself so conspicuous with that foolish girl, that all the world had been remarking it.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
We began talking of Irene, and Mrs. Thrale made Dr. Johnson read some passages which I had been remarking as uncommonly applicable to the present time.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
One day, at the Club, Mark Lemon had been remarking that he had no peculiarities, at least not more than other men, and certainly none that he knew of.
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
