sprinkle
verb (used with object)
to scatter (a liquid, powder, etc.) in drops or particles.
had been sprinkling
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past perfect progressiveof sprinkle.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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Czechoslovakia's Red regime piped up, six days later, and said that someone had been sprinkling potato bugs on Czech fields, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
But something or other had been sprinkling tears in mother’s.
From Milly and Olly by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Here and there could be seen where some loved one had been sprinkling the delicate flowers, or remained to water them with their tears.
From Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Canniff Haight
It was great fun, under that arch of turquoise sky, with the sun dancing on the clear green water, as if the millionaires of Newport had been sprinkling gold pieces.
From Lady Betty Across the Water by Orson Lowell
But as she started across the lawn, she saw a garden hose with which a man had been sprinkling the grass.
From Marjorie at Seacote by Carolyn Wells
