shower
noun
a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
had been showering
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past perfect progressiveof shower.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 days, meteors had been showering the game.
From The New Yorker ● May 14, 2018
I explained that I was a little alarmed by all the negative reviews that had been showering down upon Apple’s unilaterally imposed replacement for the Google Maps app.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2012
Mr. Harrell, a Transocean employee, testified previously that he had been showering at the time of the explosion.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2010
For weeks she had been showering Sterling with gifts and public displays of affection, and had had her friends trying to dig up better jobs for him.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the grudging praise his speech received was more to Michael than all the adulation that people had been showering upon him since the night of the mass meeting.
From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston
