stack
noun
a more or less orderly pile or heap.
had been stacking
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past perfect progressiveof stack.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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It warned of a "Christmas meltdown" in parcel and letter deliveries, and said millions of items of mail had been stacking up before the strikes.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
An old woman who had been stacking the bread stood back when she saw them, her eyes fearful.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
She had been stacking pillows and blankets as they cleared the gym floor for the blood drive, right around the time Ivy had been looking for her notebook.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
He pushed aside the chips he had been stacking and rose stiffly.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
They were stuck behind an interminable line of other taxis, limousines, cars and mini- busses that had been stacking for ten minutes.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
