deposit
verb (used with object)
to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account.
had been depositing
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past perfect progressiveof deposit.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 Mrs. Comstock had spent no time on compounding interest, and never added the sums she had been depositing through nearly twenty years.
From A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
It was evident that these oven-looking mounds had been formed by the water itself, which had been depositing the sediment that formed them for many, many years.
From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
