simulate
verb (used with object)
to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like).
had been simulating
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past perfect progressiveof simulate.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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The man, who had been simulating death, hoping so to escape, regarded De Lacy with a frown and in sullen silence.
From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood
At Gylingden and Brandon he had been simulating Captain Stanley Lake—being, in truth, something quite different—with a vigilant histrionic effort which was awfully exhausting, and sometimes nearly intolerable.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The two parsons had been simulating an interest in the cloudy firmament as an excuse for not looking at the girls until close at hand.
From An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw
We soon discovered that each one of us had been simulating a false interest in our never-ending discussion.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
