retail
noun
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
had been retailing
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past perfect progressiveof retail.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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It had been retailing for less than half of that, at $105,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Yes, he asked that, and wanted to know if Mrs. Bailey, who had been retailing current gossip, was rightly informed when she said that there was, and that it was going to come off.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
The expurgated details of the scandal she had been retailing to her daughter had included the usual maid.
From The Patrician by John Galsworthy
The bar was crowded, and when I entered it was plain that he had been retailing some good jest, for the laughter that followed was long and uproarious.
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby
Such was the lesson which this fellow had got by rote, and had been retailing to all comers for years.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
