banquet
noun
a lavish meal; feast.
were banqueting
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past progressiveof banquet.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Here were banqueting and mirth, titled guests came from far and near, music's tones were heard, goblets rang.
From The Sand-Hills of Jutland by Mrs. (Anna S.) Bushby
There were banqueting halls with marble balustrades just like their own Venetian palaces.
From Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters by Amy Steedman
My friend, for some mysterious reason, was left untouched, but the regiments that should have quartered on him joined those that were banqueting on my too unsolid flesh.
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
Forty or more business men were banqueting in a glare of light and glass and red roses—a commercial dinner with speeches.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
The point itself was ornamented with wild flowers of every hue, in which innumerable humming-birds were "banqueting nearly the livelong day."
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
