knit
verb (used with object)
to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
had been knitting
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past perfect progressiveof knit.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 project holder told Thornburg his wife had been learning to knit and had been knitting through medical treatments until she no longer could.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
On Sunday, writer Josie George shared a photo on Twitter of a scarf she had been knitting, with a daily row for the temperature and weather in her town.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2020
In the back of the room sat Yi Deng, a twenty-five-year-old Housing Works volunteer, who had been knitting a red scarf since the reading began.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014
One end of it was attached to some needles and a half-finished sock she had been knitting for me.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
About nine o'clock she professed to be ready "to be put to bed," and May, who had been knitting by her side, got up and prepared to leave her for the night.
From The New Warden by Mrs. David G. Ritchie
