cull
verb (used with object)
to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior.
had been culling
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past perfect progressiveof cull.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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For several weeks I had been culling all the information I could about Italy, from tourists.
From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain
She had been culling the blooms of that poetic land, and could not but offer me leaves from her garland.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
