renew
verb (used with object)
to begin or take up again, as an acquaintance, a conversation, etc.; resume.
had been renewing
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past perfect progressiveof renew.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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The council had been renewing the authorization for regional organizations and countries to fight against piracy and armed robbery off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation for 12 months.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
For some seconds past Mignon had been renewing his jokes and smothering Fauchery with caresses.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
The minister's wife had been taking note of the fact that Miss Herbert and one of the young MacDonald men had been renewing their acquaintance in a rather headlong fashion.
From The Silver Maple by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Cardinal Polignac formed the design of refuting the arguments of the sceptics which Bayle had been renewing in his dictionary; but his public occupations hindered him.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
He had been renewing his acquaintance with Nesta about as volubly as time allowed.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford
