had been wooing
- past perfect progressive of woo.
Example Sentences
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On Sept. 27, 1849, Poe appears to have boarded a steamer in Richmond, where he had been wooing a childhood sweetheart.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2023
He soon moved the firm to Hong Kong, which had been wooing crypto traders and imposed little oversight on the nascent industry.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Now, the regulators Bankman-Fried had been wooing are circling.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022
Manuela and Iwan Wirth had been wooing Hammons for fifteen years.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
The manner in which he received the news that unbeknown to him, he had been wooing one of the richest brides in the land, was characteristic of him.
From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
