roam
verb (used without object)
to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove.
had been roaming
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past perfect progressiveof roam.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 2020, a fully grown Bengal tiger was seized after it had been roaming the streets of Tlaquepaque, pursued by a man with a lasso.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2022
Morphew put the family home up for sale in October, saying he is scared to return and that strangers had been roaming the property.
From Fox News ● Dec. 15, 2020
“I could gauge my spirit clearly — it had been roaming transparently in angry tempests,” Peterson writes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2020
It was ineffable seeing that world demystified, witnessing firsthand the landscape, which by that time my mother had been roaming for years.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
Evelina, meanwhile, had been roaming about the room in search of an abiding-place for the clock.
From Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
