reject
verb (used with object)
to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc..
had been rejecting
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past perfect progressiveof reject.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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Guilt-ridden, the wife had been rejecting offers to head committees; her humiliated husband meanwhile doubted his own professional success.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the years, even in four-star restaurants, PL had been rejecting the house dressings and concocting his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
All his life he had been rejecting the claims of beauty and gentle things, and he could be sure that his well-brought-up family would go on doing it after he was in his grave.
From The Judge by West, Rebecca
