manufacture
noun
the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale.
had been manufacturing
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past perfect progressiveof manufacture.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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It just felt like a kind of writing that was so vivid and so smart and so different from what I had been manufacturing at Time Inc.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2016
Until recently, one of the economy's brightest spots had been manufacturing, which had powered the recovery from its longest and deepest recession since the 1930s.
From Reuters ● Jun. 24, 2011
But the numerous gifts and ornaments which they had been manufacturing for weeks were safely stored in a corner of Avery's own room.
From The Bars of Iron by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
There were Howe family machines for sale during this period, but these were the ones that Amasa Howe had been manufacturing since 1853.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper
In fact, it was a spear, which he had been manufacturing during his hour of absence out of a split stem of the pashuba palm.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
