commute
verb (used with object)
to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one.
had been commuting
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past perfect progressiveof commute.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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Ms. Moran, who took over the post in July, is leaving because she had been commuting by plane, a White House official told Politico, which first reported the story.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Liebell had been commuting for 17 years to her teaching job at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2020
For the past year and a half, Darby had been commuting regularly between her apartment in Brooklyn and Washington, where she worked as an editor at Foreign Policy magazine.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2016
For the past three months, he had been commuting every two weeks to an assignment in El Segundo.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015
Mr. Brooks, 38, a banker, ordinarily as meek as a citizen, had been commuting from Greens Farms, Conn, for four years.
From Time Magazine Archive
