shuffle
verb (used without object)
to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
had been shuffling
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past perfect progressiveof shuffle.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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He wore big-platformed Velcro sneakers, which he had been shuffling around in all day with the help of a walker.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018
The game had been shuffling along for three and three-quarter-sessions but it took a giant stride forward in the half hour before lunch.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2015
It was dark, it was 40 degrees, and my cohort had been shuffling forward three steps at a time for two hours before we reached the buses.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2011
For ten days they had been shuffling in & out of hotel rooms, conferring, dickering, laboriously going over a list of some 20 names; they were prepared to resume their deliberations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been shuffling restlessly on the pavement before her.
From The Christian A Story by Sir Hall Caine
