dispatch
verb (used with object)
to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
had been dispatching
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past perfect progressiveof dispatch.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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Might it have been a wake-up call for a team that had been dispatching opponents so easily with the flick of Aaron Rodgers’s wrist and needed a good test before the playoffs?
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2011
On the Sunday one of my people came over, thanks to the cheery telegrams the War Office had been dispatching.
From Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington
