thrust
verb (used with object)
to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force.
had been thrusting
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past perfect progressiveof thrust.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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A chivalry he would never have acknowledged had been thrusting the girl more and more into the foreground.
From The Return of Blue Pete by Luke Allan
The shadows were lengthening, hiding the details in the thickets, and all the hot day, he had been thrusting his way through thicket after thicket, in obedience to the instructions of the foresters.
From Millennium by Everett B. Cole
