bury
verb (used with object)
to put in the ground and cover with earth.
had been burying
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past perfect progressiveof bury.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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Al-Alami’s brother — who witnessed the entire event from the balcony — said the two events were not related and that earlier, another family had been burying a stillborn baby in a cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
“Humans had been burying people in ships for centuries and millennia,” says Brunning.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 29, 2021
“In the end, we traced it back to Hughes Aircraft, which had been burying toxic waste—mostly really mundane stuff, like airplane degreasers—in unlined pits in the ground since the Korean War.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2017
One of its earliest members, Martin Gjertson, had been burying his children on part of his land since 1868.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2015
So then they would dig up again what the peasants had been burying: and that was the easier because they had left the mattocks and spades which they used lying there.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
