lodge
noun
a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
had been lodging
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past perfect progressiveof lodge.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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He had been lodging at a house in Headington on weekdays since August.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2020
The deceased had been lodging at Yarmouth since the 15th, and had stated that her name was Hood.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
I found the old lady in great trouble about a young woman who had been lodging with her for some time.
From A Crooked Path A Novel by Mrs. Alexander
But Henry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched thither against him.
From Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
At four of the houses they went to a foreign sailor had been lodging there for the last day or so, but yesterday afternoon all had paid their reckoning and left.
From Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
