sense
noun
any of the faculties, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.
had been sensing
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past perfect progressiveof sense.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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For some time I had been sensing that the thing was for me no end in itself, but an incident.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
He felt that the strange feeling of vacancy all about him, which he had been sensing for some time, was at last going to be explained.
From Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois
