ferry
noun
a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.
had been ferrying
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past perfect progressiveof ferry.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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Sergiy Brovko, 57, a short, wiry bus driver whose crow’s feet wrap around the side of his head, had been ferrying children to school for less than a year before the war reached the town.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
Anne Whitlock and Michael Skelly had been ferrying hurricane victims to the shelter from a nearby hospital.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2017
It turned out that he had been ferrying Ozick and her husband around New Rochelle for years.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
He had been ferrying documents between Greenwald and a Berlin-based journalist contact of Snowden.
From Reuters ● Aug. 21, 2013
A 42-year-old transport pilot who had been ferrying 137 passengers to and from Europe was recently grounded because of minor but disquieting ECG changes.
From Time Magazine Archive
