log
noun
a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
had been logging
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past perfect progressiveof log.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 city had been logging a few coronavirus infections for days.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
In France, Weah had been logging minutes for PSG’s U-19 squad and the reserve team in the fourth division, scoring twice last month.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2018
People had been logging trees that were hundreds or thousands of years old, and these are slow-growing species.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2013
Like the pilot of Old 97, he had been logging close to 90 m.p.h. as he rocketed across the South from Baltimore to Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men who had been logging in the camp two months back had left a keg of maple-syrup and a half barrel of flour, and the bear broke into both—successively—and alternately.
From Joy in the Morning by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
