wed
verb (used with object)
to marry (another person) in a formal ceremony.
had been wedding
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past perfect progressiveof wed.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 miserable furnishing, much of it of purely home manufacture, thrown up into hideous relief by the few tasteful knickknacks which had been wedding presents from her intimate friends and relatives in the east.
From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum
Those who had been wedding guests the day before now came as mourners to the house of the Adorjans.
From Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania by Percy Favor Bicknell
