serenade
noun
a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
had been serenading
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past perfect progressiveof serenade.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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It was just after we had been serenading you.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
The lover who had been serenading Julia Mannering was in reality, the same Vanbeest Brown whom she had known in India, and with whom her father had fought the duel.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 5 by William Patten
Without another word Kate fled down the alley, and Dick was left to explain whatever he pleased concerning the mythical lady whom he declared he had been serenading.
From A Mummer's Wife by George (George Augustus) Moore
