weave
verb (used with object)
to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.
had been weaving
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past perfect progressiveof weave.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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Witnesses claimed the truck had been weaving on and off the road, and that brakes were not applied before the crash, according to the Statesman Journal newspaper.
From Washington Times ● May 20, 2023
Witnesses at the 2018 trial said McKnight had been weaving in and out of traffic at high speed before the shooting — one prosecutor acknowledged to the jury that he was “driving like a jerk.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
Monday at a rest stop when the trooper spotted a vehicle that matched the description of a vehicle that had been weaving in and out of interstate traffic.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2017
CHP spokesman Officer Jose Barrios said last week that the officer pulled over the suspect, who had been weaving through traffic in West Covina in an SUV on Friday.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2015
At last it was possible to lift his nose from the loom, to step a moment in front of the tapestry he had been weaving.
From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton
