ditch
noun
a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
had been ditching
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past perfect progressiveof ditch.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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Twig was in Paris that week, and Mikayla had been ditching me during lunch, so I was eating alone.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
We had been ditching and when the work-bell rang had left our tools where we were working, when they should have been carried to the toolhouse.
From The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children by Various
