release
verb (used with object)
to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go.
had been releasing
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past perfect progressiveof release.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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Prof Hammond requested data on 11 Welsh treatment plants and found that 10 had been releasing untreated sewage at times when they should have been treating it.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023
The plant had been releasing ethylene oxide from 1985 until it was temporarily shut down by the state in 2019 after authorities detected the gas nearby.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Anderson Reservoir had been releasing as much water as possible through its main outlet since Jan. 9.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2017
By the time “Bawitdaba” came out as a single, Kid Rock had been releasing music for almost a decade.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 17, 2016
Toward midday a sea-plane which had been releasing depth-bombs and hovering eagerly above the wide iridescent and spreading stain, sheered shoreward and shot along the coast.
From In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
