furnish
verb (used with object)
to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
had been furnishing
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past perfect progressiveof furnish.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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Walmart had been furnishing what it contended were huge volumes of materials.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2020
Until September, she had been furnishing the system with canvas slip-ons, but the city decided it wanted something sturdier.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2010
The garrison of Badajoz was insufficient; that of Almeida had been furnishing provisions for several weeks to the troops of Masséna cantoned in the environs of the place; resources began to be exhausted.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
So the trophies from the auction-rooms now began to inundate the apartment which, at the beginning, he had been furnishing with such desperate slowness.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
For several evenings Wee Andra had been furnishing hilarious entertainment for the village by his agonized efforts to skate.
From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
