troll
verb (used with object)
to fish for or in with a moving line, either working the line up or down with a rod as in fishing for pike, or trailing the line behind a slow-moving boat.
had been trolling
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past perfect progressiveof troll.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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In recent days, he had been trolling climate activist Greta Thunberg - who was not shy herself about making a joke or two about him in return.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2022
Colonel Killigrew all this time had been trolling forth a jolly battle-song, and ringing his glass toward the buxom figure of the Widow Wycherley.
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Daniel Defoe
