wad
noun
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of tobacco.
had been wadding
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past perfect progressiveof wad.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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During this conversation Effi had been wadding bread and tossing it on the table, then making figures out of the little balls, to indicate that a change of topic was desirable.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
