diet
noun
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health.
had been dieting
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past perfect progressiveof diet.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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You look as if you had been dieting on Gamboge and Flake White.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
He said he felt very bad indeed, and that he had been dieting for a long time.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
When she had been dieting for about two months she had lost a couple of stones in weight.
From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter
