dispose
verb (used with object)
to give a tendency or inclination to; incline.
had been disposing
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past perfect progressiveof dispose.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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Jet is extracted at the same time as amber, and in Kuji, miners had been disposing of it as unburnable coal.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Hitherto, being unable to earn as much money as she spent, she had been disposing of the inherited valuables, but had now exhausted nearly all of them.
From Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories by William Elliot Griffis
In a few moments, Duncan, who had been disposing of the horses and the wagonette, overtook them, got ready the boat, and presently they were cutting asunder the bright blue plain of summer waves.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
There was not a trace in his face that in the library only a few minutes ago he had been disposing of his future with amazing swiftness.
From The New Warden by Mrs. David G. Ritchie
Grant at Vicksburg While Lee had been disposing of McClellan, Pope and Burnside, Grant had remained in comparative idleness near Corinth, Mississippi.
From On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill
