juggle
verb (used with object)
to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.
had been juggling
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past perfect progressiveof juggle.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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To make ends meet, he said he had been juggling two jobs, sometimes sleeping in his car, and nodding off during T-ball games when his son wasn’t at bat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
In the days leading up to his birthday, he had been juggling huge matters of race and war.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017
Crennel had been juggling coaching and coordinator duties since taking over on an interim basis when Todd Haley was fired in December.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2012
He was a get-rich-quick villain of the vilest stripe; he had been juggling a bank, a trust company, an insurance company and a land and street-railway speculative scheme as one would glass balls.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
Tenspot flipped to Waffles the money he had been juggling and Lefty searched his clothes for wealth.
From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Clarence Edward Mulford
