reverberate
verb (used without object)
to reecho or resound.
had been reverberating
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past perfect progressiveof reverberate.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 noise, too, and confusion which, during his flight, had been reverberating through the house with a formidable din, now only reached him as a far-away murmur.
From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson
All day long the streets had been reverberating with that essential of a California Christmas, the fire-cracker.
From The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Frederick Vining Fisher
