influence
noun
the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others.
had been influencing
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past perfect progressiveof influence.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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Woods had been influencing the U.S. team through the weekend.
From Fox News ● Sep. 27, 2021
The judge said that while she couldn’t tell if Crossley had been influencing the answers, the data and methods on display in the video “were similar to facilitated communication rendering her analysis invalid.”
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2017
She had been influencing somebody or something all her life.
From A Philanthropist by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
He had read and studied the subject pretty thoroughly, if also very slowly, during the time his wife had been influencing him.
From Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
That luncheon was the latest and the most profound of a long series of impressions which had been influencing my mental attitude towards the excellent, the successful, the entirely agreeable Mr. Alpha.
From The Plain Man and His Wife by Arnold Bennett
