seem
verb (used without object)
to appear to be, feel, do, etc..
had been seeming
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past perfect progressiveof seem.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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Out there at the front, over here in hospital, life had been seeming so—as it were—heroic; and yet it held such mean and murky depths as well!
From Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy
They sat about the table and talked, and he led them all back to the mountains which had been seeming so far away.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Everything had been seeming to go against her and here, all of a sudden, everything had turned out her way.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
