had been charging
- past perfect progressive of charge.
Example Sentences
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The complaints quote an Energizer sales representative telling the chief executive of Walmart rival Portable Power Inc, which had been charging lower prices, on an early 2021 phone call why Energizer was cutting it off.
From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2023
Facing widespread outrage, KV soon reduced the price to $690 — still more than 40 times what compounding pharmacies had been charging for what was then a nearly 60-year-old generic medicine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic had been charging $250,000 for similar flights.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021
At the time, the Hesses had been charging the store rent of “a couple of hundred dollars a year,” according to The New York Herald Tribune.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2019
The battery had been charging all day but Derek was probably messing with the camera even though Moms told him to keep his hands off it.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
