whisk
verb (used with object)
to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke.
had been whisking
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past perfect progressiveof whisk.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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Tied up on the other side of the fore-deck they had been whisking their tails into the other door of the galley.
From A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad
Then, tossing aside the branch with which he had been whisking himself, he threw up his trunk, and, trumpeting savagely, charged straight toward them.
From The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa by Alec Ball
Tied up on the other side of the fore deck they had been whisking their tails into the other door of the galley.
From Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad
