market
noun
an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace.
had been marketing
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past perfect progressiveof market.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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Diaz had been marketing director for the town of Miami Lakes and the Miami Lakes Food and Wine Festival.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
For months before the sale, experts at Christie’s had been marketing the auction as an event filled with once-in-a-lifetime pieces.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2014
Standard of Indiana had been marketing "SO" oil & gas for 40 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now many times before this, Mary Jane had been marketing with her mother.
From Mary Jane's City Home by Gooch, Thelma
Six or seven men were talking drearily at one end of the room, and a woman I knew, who had been marketing in Wicklow, was resting nearer the door.
From In Wicklow and West Kerry by Synge, J. M. (John Millington)
