wet
adjective
moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid.
had been wetting
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past perfect progressiveof wet.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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As they were handed up, the prisoner, who had been wetting his lips, said plainly, "There's nothing in them about this business," and was reproved by Sergeant Weeks.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
There was a cut upon his forehead, and they had been wetting his hair, which lay bedabbled and entangled on the pillow.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
