pedal
noun
a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
had been pedaling
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past perfect progressiveof pedal.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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Sherman caught wind that Nolan had taken one of her virtual classes, but wasn’t expecting that he had been pedaling away in her class when she’d pooh-poohed his 2020 sci-fi action film “Tenet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Lately he had been pedaling a rickshaw, earning about $2 a day ferrying passengers though the warren of alleyways in a run-down part of metropolitan Manila.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016
