revive
verb (used with object)
to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew.
had been reviving
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past perfect progressiveof revive.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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Even before Omicron’s unwelcome arrival, countries across Europe had been reviving former pandemic-fighting measures, pages torn from a tattered playbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
During the resuscitation of Polly, Owen Murray, true to his new passion for the Leghorn family, had been reviving Mr. G. Bird and now with regard for decorum, he set him quietly upon his feet.
From The Golden Bird by Edward L. Chase
Since the epidemic had begun, all that sense of imaginative attraction which had been reviving in him towards the squire had been simply blotted out by a fierce heat of indignation.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
My courage had been reviving fast in the warm presence of a human being.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
The hope that had been reviving in my breast fell dead once more, and I turned cold at that threat.
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
