sting
verb (used with object)
to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
had been stinging
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past perfect progressiveof sting.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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I afterward discovered however I had been stinging his boots.
From The Crow's Nest by Clarence Day
Liney, who liked the sharp thrust of his bill where a mosquito had been stinging, was careful not to wiggle her hide and scare him away.
From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates
The men's blood was aflame, and little wonder, for these wasps had been stinging all morning without our being able so much as to see them.
From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
