had been diving
- past perfect progressive of dive.
Example Sentences
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Two men had been diving for golf balls in the lake, but emergency services were called when only one man resurfaced, BBC News NI understands.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2021
Equipped with a dry sense of humour and a passing physical resemblance to Hollywood tough guy Vin Diesel, Paakkarinen had been diving longer than any of the others.
From BBC ● May 8, 2016
He had been diving into the deep end of the swimming pool since he was eighteen months old.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
I found her one day sitting in the sun with the top of her head as white as though she had been diving into the flour barrel.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.
As she was about to put them on her mother returned from a drawer, into the recesses of which she had been diving, and from which she brought a paper carefully folded.
From Homestead on the Hillside by Holmes, Mary Jane
