harvest
noun
the gathering of crops.
had been harvesting
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past perfect progressiveof harvest.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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Ahmad Awad Sumarin, 47, a distant relative and spokesperson for the families who claim the land in Hinnon Valley, said he and his relatives had been harvesting family olive trees there since he was 5.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022
In 2008, Pyongyang invited international journalists to film the destruction of the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, from which it had been harvesting plutonium to make its first bombs.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018
Tobacco grew well in Virginia, and American Indians had been harvesting it for hundreds of years.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Besides, you have already given my boy as much as if he had been harvesting a whole day.'
From Selected Polish Tales by Marie Busch
Three Mormons from Nauvoo had been harvesting a field of grain about eight miles from the city.*
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn
