claim
verb (used with object)
to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due.
had been claiming
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past perfect progressiveof claim.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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Peter Murrell resigned just after his wife left office, after admitting that the party had been claiming to have 100,000 members when membership had plunged to 70,000.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
Which means it’s not exempt from VAT as Subway had been claiming.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020
Saudi Arabia made a stark turn in its narrative about what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, finally agreeing with Turkish officials who had been claiming the journalist was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2018
New attention to div-arb by German regulators and lawmakers is the byproduct of a recent scandal involving trades in which participants had been claiming duplicate refunds of dividend taxes.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2016
Felix was by this time composing a great deal, and, though little more than twelve years old, work of a more serious kind than the writing of operettas had been claiming his attention.
From Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham
