chronicle
noun
a chronological record of events; a history.
had been chronicling
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past perfect progressiveof chronicle.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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Gibson, whose oldest sister, Salendra, died suddenly four months prior, had been chronicling his mother’s harrowing journey on social media for days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The death of Jean-Jacques Savin was announced by his friends on a Facebook page that had been chronicling his voyage.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
One reason the national black civil rights movement accelerated in the mid-1950s was the advent of television, which captured the injustices African-Americans had been chronicling for decades.
From US News ● Jan. 5, 2016
On Twitter, she had been chronicling the difficult process of making a Grimes album.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 28, 2015
I said at the beginning of the last chapter, that during the period, some of the recollections of which I had been chronicling, the two greatest sorrows I had ever known had befallen me.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
