refresh
verb (used with object)
to provide new vigor and energy by rest, food, etc. (often used reflexively).
had been refreshing
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past perfect progressiveof refresh.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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Some employers had been refreshing their health and safety standards to make sure their workplaces were as safe as possible, she added.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2021
He added that it had been refreshing to make a funny movie at a time when "laughing seems to be forbidden": a reference to the global gloom from the coronavirus pandemic.
From Reuters ● Sep. 4, 2021
Former Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, said that the generational shift fighting for a free Cuba in Miami had been refreshing.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2021
The glimpse of Glory had been refreshing because she was so honest and sincere that she disquieted one’s acquired cynicism of viewpoint.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
"Yes, I had been refreshing my memory in that way," returned her mother, smiling pleasantly into the dark eyes gazing so fondly and entreatingly into hers.
From Elsie at Viamede by Martha Finley
