divide
verb (used with object)
to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
had been dividing
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past perfect progressiveof divide.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 had been dividing his time between Rome and Sydney after he was exonerated in 2020 of allegations he molested two choirboys while he was archbishop of Melbourne.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
In March, I spent a few hours looking at wildflowers with Dianne Milliard, a ranger who had been dividing her time between Death Valley, in the winter, and McCarthy, Alaska, in the summer.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2016
Callier had been dividing his time in recent years between Chicago and England.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2012
He had been dividing and scattering his forces so much that he could not now concentrate them and fight at the point where they were needed most.
From The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
The forces that had been dividing them year by year since the days of their father appeared to be drawing them yet wider apart in the lives and fortunes of their children.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
