shirk
verb (used with object)
to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
had been shirking
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past perfect progressiveof shirk.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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She asked all about my lessons, and said she was going to ask Tancredi to lunch with her tomorrow to find out how I had been shirking.
From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Pemberton Ginther
She had been shirking going home, she realized now, all the afternoon.
From The Rose-Garden Husband by Margaret Widdemer
Less heavy-eyed, less pallid and pasty, less like a man who had been shirking bed and keeping up on cocktails and cold baths.
From The Deluge by David Graham Phillips
You sweated away, and improved your fielding twenty per cent.; and I happened to be talking to Firby-Smith and found that young Mike had been shirking his, so out he went.
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
I feel very lonely here, and besides I feel the longing to look once more into Aniela's eyes, and at times feel guilty, as if I had been shirking a duty by running away.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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