speed
noun
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of sound.
had been speeding
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past perfect progressiveof speed.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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Soon after, officer Mark Johnson, who had been speeding to Camp Swamp Road, radioed to officers saying that Moss wanted to enter the crime scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Witnesses said the Kia had been speeding toward Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
The defendant accepted he had been speeding before the crash but said at the time he was within the speed limit when it happened.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022
The driver had been speeding when she crashed into a parked vehicle in the area, FOX 29 reported.
From Fox News ● Aug. 12, 2021
All this time the runners sent out from Bryan's had been speeding through the woods, summoning help from each of the little walled towns.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore
