whip
verb (used with object)
had been whipping
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past perfect progressiveof whip.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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For several days, currents of air had been whipping up from the Black Sea, across the Ukraine, over the Baltic and into Scandinavia.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That's the stuff to give 'em," chortled the Brigade signalling officer, who had been whipping round similar messages to various units.
From Pushed and the Return Push by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
THE wise men of Washington agreed that McDowell was not the general we took him for, so we sent for George B. McClellan, who had been whipping the rebels up in Northern Virginia.
From Siege of Washington, D.C., written expressly for little people by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
The papers had been whipping up a lot of anti-robe feeling, you could feel it behind the angry voices, see it in the narrowed eyes and clenched fists.
From The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison
He looked just as if he had been whipping someone in school.
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
