thirst
noun
a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
had been thirsting
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past perfect progressiveof thirst.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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They had been thirsting in the desert for a long time, and at long last they were about to taste the elixir of revival.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2022
Vauvenargues had been living in a dream of military glory, and had been thirsting to serve his country in the loftiest and most responsible capacities.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
While Julian exposed diplomacy and denounced governments, Nan sat, chin in hand, drinking it in, as if she recognized in these doctrines that true faith for which all her life she had been thirsting.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
I would no more have turned from it than I would have turned from food, if I had been starving; or water after I had been thirsting in the desert.
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Then Stair put a question he had been thirsting to have answered all night.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
