inject
verb (used with object)
to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue.
had been injecting
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past perfect progressiveof inject.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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King, a laryngologist with Peak ENT and Voice Center, had been injecting Botox in the same muscle to treat people having a hard time swallowing after a stroke.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
For 9 days straight, health workers there had been injecting about 5000 people between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 16, 2021
The investigators were not even certain that Huang had been injecting olfactory ensheathing cells.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
The young researcher at Montreal's McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone.
From Time Magazine Archive
I feel as if Lee had been injecting new life through my veins.
From The Peril Finders by Harold Piffard
