marinate
verb (used with object)
to steep (food) in a marinade.
had been marinating
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past perfect progressiveof marinate.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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While the Prepd concept was pressed into service sooner than expected, the idea had been marinating for the past few years.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2021
My mind had been marinating overnight—and for more than a year, really—in the abstrusities of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology on which they are built.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
I wouldn’t miss the history in which we had been marinating all week: a Brunswick stew of Blackbeard, the Civil War and Andy Griffith.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2015
