accompany
verb (used with object)
to go along or in company with; join in action.
had been accompanying
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past perfect progressiveof accompany.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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An unidentified man who had been accompanying Kolek quickly stepped in, and then officers allowed him to pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Mr Nunan's dog, Thumbelina, had been accompanying him on the trip and was found alive and well on the boat, which had its anchor raised and its engine off.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
His wife, Terri Rand, 66, had been accompanying him.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Mamadou Mbaye, a Tivaouane resident, said he had been accompanying a relative to the hospital's radiology ward when he heard that a fire had broken out at the neonatal unit.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
Then he recognized dully that they were his own, that he had been accompanying his reflections with groans of grief.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
