spray
noun
water or other liquid broken up into minute droplets and blown, ejected into, or falling through the air.
had been spraying
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past perfect progressiveof spray.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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A farmer had been spraying a weedkiller, Roundup, on a few “volunteer” soft white wheat plants that had sprouted, weedlike, in a 125-acre field he was trying to leave fallow.
From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 20, 2013
