had been thirsting
- past perfect progressive of thirst.
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
Even now that the moment he had been thirsting for was come, he hesitated to break the witchery of the spell, to disturb the unrivalled beauty of the picture.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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 Robins, Elizabeth
Here was the woodsman's golden opportunity—an opportunity for which he had been thirsting since the receipt of that letter.
From Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods by Hornibrook, Isabel
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 Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
