resort
verb (used without object)
to have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource.
had been resorting
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past perfect progressiveof resort.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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In truth Eustace had been resorting all this time to the companionship of the Horsmans.
From My Young Alcides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Hugh Morice had been resorting to that medicine--in whose qualifications to minister to a mind diseased he more than half believed--a ride upon his motor car.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh
Foreigners had been resorting to him from all parts of the world, and gave him hopes of new fields for codifying.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
Vereker had been resorting to a furtive hint of a declaration, disguised as fiction.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
