had been selling
- past perfect progressive of sell.
Example Sentences
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The airline already had been selling off aircraft and scaling back its operations, and executives realized Spirit needed to do more, according to people familiar with their thinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The Sheikhs had been selling them online for £15 to £20 a box.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
Jewelry brand Phillips House, which had been selling to Saks for more than a decade, started noticing missed payments in March 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The country had been selling oil to allies such as China and Russia at discounts of up to 50 percent, with low production and export levels.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
A few years into Pauline Hawthorne’s career, her photographs had been selling for tens of thousands—quite a lot for a photographer of that time, let alone a woman.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
