had been employing
- past perfect progressive of employ.
Example Sentences
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Neuroscientist and autism expert Gina Rippon says an increase in late autism diagnoses around the start of this decade revealed the myriad of coping mechanisms women had been employing.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
But that meant that when the recession did come, the means we had been employing to keep juicing growth were insufficient for an actual rescue effort.
From Fox News ● Mar. 25, 2020
“We all had been employing the blacklisted writers,” Mr. Douglas wrote in a 2012 memoir, “I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
The Mariners had been employing openers for LeBlanc and Tommy Milone since the beginning of June.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2019
Percy, who had been employing his swivels with great effect, at length shouted out to Lionel to go and get some more powder.
From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by Kingston, William Henry Giles
