had been discovering
- past perfect progressive of discover.
Example Sentences
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As an amateur archaeologist whose passion had been discovering Bronze Age stone carvings, Yerlan Zhagiparov had never been politically active.
From New York Times β Jan. 31, 2022
In recent years Leicester’s global claim to fame had been discovering the battle-scarred skeleton of a 15th-century monarch under a parking lot in 2012.
From Washington Times β Dec. 23, 2015
He peered, bending forward, as though he had been discovering about her things he had never seen before.
From Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph
Everywhere we had been discovering that in the pitch dark many could hardly be held in place.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900βThe Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
In the last few years Mr. Britling, by the light of a variety of emotional excursions in other directions, had been discovering this.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
