execute
verb (used with object)
to carry out; accomplish.
had been executing
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past perfect progressiveof execute.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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"We had been executing at a high level the entire game and the guys were intent on bending but not breaking," NFL sacks leader Myles Garrett of the Browns said.
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
Pompeius had broken through the blockade; and now the two armies had been executing tedious manoeuvres, fencing for a vantage-ground before joining pitched battle.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
News had been brought that the Americans had been executing great additional works, and the British general was anxious to learn the nature of these before he advanced.
From True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
I supposed he had been executing some deed.
From The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton
