shop
noun
a retail store, especially a small one.
had been shopping
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past perfect progressiveof shop.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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But she wishes some of those fans had been shopping at her stores on a monthly or quarterly basis in recent years rather than now bemoaning what’s been lost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
At the time, he had been shopping for crude suppliers for a refinery he was planning to construct in Perth Amboy in his home state of New Jersey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Malukas decided earlier this season he didn’t want to return to Coyne in 2024 and had been shopping himself when the McLaren seat suddenly opened last month.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2023
But his phone and bank records showed he had been shopping in B&Q in Barrow at the time.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2023
Some of them had been shopping downtown, and others had been out visiting friends, and all during supper they kept tossing back and forth these private jokes.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
