had been fattening
- past perfect progressive of fatten.
Example Sentences
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It led to a bottom-heavy release calendar, as if pop’s golden goose had been fattening up all year to pelt fans with gleaming eggs.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2019
And this one had left nothing but a goat, a goose she had been fattening, and a tiny girl of two years.
From St. Peter's Umbrella by Mikszáth, Kálmán
The pigs had been fattening through the winter, and it was quite time to send them to market.
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton
Desiree had stopped him there to make him feel a capon which she had been fattening for some weeks past.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
Now—now it's a swell bunch of fifty beeves that had been fattening for the buyers.
From The Forfeit by Cullum, Ridgwell
