mix
verb (used with object)
to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
had been mixing
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past perfect progressiveof mix.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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Reich also had been mixing and matching offensive line groupings trying to find something, anything that would work.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
But it could start to affect more children once they had been mixing at school for a couple of weeks.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2022
Professor Maggie Snowling said households self-isolating had been mixing and people had not been social distancing at events.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2020
When Briggs died, Tim Mulligan, who had been mixing Young’s live shows since the 1970s, inherited some part of Briggs’s mantle.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
For thousands of years—back to the very dawn of history when men had bred horses and asses to produce mules—men had been mixing species to produce useful hybrids.
From The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
