interview
noun
a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person.
had been interviewing
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past perfect progressiveof interview.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 Cultural Affairs Department had been interviewing candidates for the vacant positions and had made an offer for the job of arts manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
Another of the investigators, Jasminka Džumhurs, said the group had been interviewing Ukrainian mothers and was particularly concerned about the impact of the attacks on children's rights.
From Reuters ● Dec. 2, 2022
He added that the woman, Monica McLean, had been interviewing for jobs with the FBI and U.S.
From Fox News ● Oct. 3, 2018
He had been interviewing Jessica Leeds, the seventy-four-year old woman who claims to have been assaulted by Donald Trump on an airplane in the early nineteen-eighties.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2016
While Sheen had been interviewing Stanning, in study twelve, farther down the passage, Linton and his friend Dunstable, who was in Day's house, were discussing ways and means.
From The White Feather by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
