skid
noun
a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
had been skidding
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past perfect progressiveof skid.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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RIM's stock had been skidding since February, hurt by a drumbeat of negative news.
From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2011
Started by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United Artists had been skidding for years, was on the verge of bankruptcy because its two surviving owners.
From Time Magazine Archive
