house
noun
a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
had been housing
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past perfect progressiveof house.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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The VA had been housing sick and destitute veterans on 387 acres of rolling greens on the border of West Los Angeles and Brentwood since 1888.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
The school, closed during the war, had been housing displaced people, the health ministry said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
All told, 68,000 evacuees have now been processed and set free into the U.S., and six bases that had been housing them have closed their camps.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
But in the past several months he had been housing between a hundred and a hundred and thirty migrants at a time.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2019
I said under my breath, as I confronted this miserable figure—so shamefully insignificant for the vicarious emotions which it had been housing.
From Painted Windows by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
