route
noun
a course, way, or road for passage or travel.
had been routing
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past perfect progressiveof route.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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What makes this so remarkable is that Oprah had been routing the competition handily for so many years.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been routing among the piled newspapers under the kitchen dresser, and had turned quite hopefully and taken the thing.
From The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
