migrate
verb (used without object)
to go from one country, region, or place to another.
had been migrating
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past perfect progressiveof migrate.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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Bantu speakers had been migrating from this area possibly since as early as 3000 BCE.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Kirkland-based Posabit had been migrating away from such transactions to a different form of payment processing for more than a year, and finally got rid of the last of its cashless-ATM solutions Sunday, Hamlin said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
Guatemalans had been migrating to the United States for decades, but mass migration began in earnest in the 1980s, when the civil war entered a genocidal phase.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020
Meanwhile Mormons had been migrating to Missouri and Illinois.
From Time Magazine Archive
The capital had been migrating from town to town for nearly the whole period of North Carolina's existence.
From School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore
