appropriate
adjective
suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc..
had been appropriating
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past perfect progressiveof appropriate.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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The friendship cooled in 2008, amid a controversy over Ms. Quinn’s disclosure that the Council had been appropriating millions in taxpayer dollars to fictitious organizations.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2012
Up to this point, Hughes had been appropriating the tapes at the end of each session and providing Irving with transcriptions later.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been appropriating the funds of the corporation to his own use, being treasurer as well as superintendent.
From Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck by Horatio Alger
While he was away, his enemies had been appropriating his territory, and Sweden was reduced to a second-class power.
From Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic
