voyage
noun
a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
had been voyaging
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past perfect progressiveof voyage.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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The tree looked so much more interesting than her bare raft, on which she had been voyaging for over an hour, and of which she was now heartily tired.
From Children of the Wild by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
One beautiful evening we encamped on the margin of one of those innumerable lakelets which gleam like diamonds on the breast of the great wilderness through which for many weeks we had been voyaging.
From The Big Otter by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Since then these survivors and their descendants had been voyaging through space on their marvelous disc.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Harry Bates
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