pocket
noun
a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
had been pocketing
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past perfect progressiveof pocket.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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He said doctors had been pocketing extra fees for lab tests and other public services, even as international donations poured in.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021
While one of these rascals had been pocketing our money under our very nose, the other had bagged two great iron pins that we had driven into the court-yard for the purpose of our camels.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by William Chambers
