tower
noun
a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
had been towering
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past perfect progressiveof tower.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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His grandfathers had been towering spiritual patriarchs in early Massachusetts Bay, and his father, Increase Mather, had been minister of Boston’s Second Church, president of Harvard College, and Massachusetts’s colonial agent.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
