sauce
noun
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
had been saucing
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past perfect progressiveof sauce.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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I told her, and she almost took my breath away by telling me that I had been "saucing" Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Alexandra.
From Through St. Dunstan's to Light by James H. Rawlinson
