vibrate
verb (used without object)
to move rhythmically and steadily to and fro, as a pendulum; oscillate.
had been vibrating
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past perfect progressiveof vibrate.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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And the mother felt the thing that had been vibrating in her for so long cease entirely.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
From early morning the skies over the Academy had been vibrating to the thunderous exhausts of the incoming fleet of ships.
From Treachery in Outer Space by Louis Glanzman
It was because her voice and the poems had been vibrating with life and because the ardour and delirium of our love had adorned my rhymes with all their charms, that they seemed so beautiful.
From The Inferno by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Loo almost sobbed, for her sympathies had been awakened by Willie, and a chord had been touched which had been vibrating in her breast for some weeks past.
From Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Possibly they had been vibrating all these intervening years, unknown to me, unrecognized.
From The Garden of Survival by Algernon Blackwood
