terrorize
verb (used with object)
to fill or overcome with terror.
had been terrorizing
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past perfect progressiveof terrorize.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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“According to the complaint, the chicken had been terrorizing bank customers all week, at both the walk-up ATM and the drive-thru,” the department said in a light-hearted Facebook post.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
The pilot, thought to be Rhodesian or an English-speaking Belgian, had been terrorizing U.N. garrisons since the beginning of the fighting, had even made strafing passes at a press conference given by U.N.
From Time Magazine Archive
As soon as we got there my brother Lmatarion told us that two lions had been terrorizing the camps.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
For five years past, a gray spaceship, with a base supposedly hidden in the Polar deserts of Mars, had been terrorizing interplanetary shipping.
From Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings
He was a recognized hero of the British public, which on one occasion had presented him with a testimonial for his capture of a desperado who had been terrorizing the East End of London.
From The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
