display
verb (used with object)
to show or exhibit; make visible.
had been displaying
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past perfect progressiveof display.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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He said his parents also told him their child had been unwell the night before he was brought to hospital and had been displaying abnormal movements including shaking and stiffening of his limbs.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2024
The high command wanted to get rid of Blagoje Neskovic, a Politburocrat and a Vice Premier, because he had been displaying pro-Cominform sympathies; the delegates sacked Neskovic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Cap'n sighed with the resigned air that he had been displaying during the week past.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
Horner and Smoke had been displaying a gallantry toward Maud Brewster, ludicrous in itself and inoffensive to her, but to him evidently distasteful.
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
While, as if for climax, the Customs' authorities had been displaying a most suspicious interest in him and his ship.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
