had been thirsting

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of thirst.
  thirst

  noun

  a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.

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had been thirsting

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

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

Then Stair put a question he had been thirsting to have answered all night.

From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

For three years Leeds had been thirsting for his liberty; his heart was fixed on that one object.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

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

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