- past perfect progressive of sun.
Example Sentences
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A few minutes later, her former stepfather's wife Jackie Barrett left the sandbar where they had been sunning themselves and followed Campbell.
From Time Magazine Archive
The facts: peripatetic Bill Pawley had been sunning himself in Miami at the time the Electoral Tribunal made up its mind on the Commies; the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Close at hand a lizard that had been sunning itself all day against the cliff raised its head for an instant, then slipped noiselessly away with the shadows into a crevice in the rock.
From When Dreams Come True by Berger, William Merritt
The whole town was swarming with workmen, hurrying out, and with the nurses who were quickly carrying the chrysalises from the place where they had been sunning themselves, inside the mound.
From Little Tom by Tille, V.
As the girls passed the place where the alligators had been sunning themselves they gave one look each into the water where the saurians had disappeared.
From The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South by Hope, Laura Lee
