store
noun
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
had been storing
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past perfect progressiveof store.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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He had been storing the Daleks in his mother's living room and she was sick of the sight of them.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
It became a really good conduit for us to work out a lot of the emotional stuff that we had been storing up and processing over the previous years.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Nigeria's environment minister said on Saturday the vessel had been storing about 50,000-60,000 barrels of crude, well below its capacity of 2 million barrels.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2022
Rob, a 69-year-old retiree in St. Louis, had been storing Beth’s cremated remains in their original plastic bag on a living room bookshelf; an urn, to him, felt too permanent.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
Dad says Pleiades had been storing their ships in a massive underground facility at the old Denver airport—they weren’t supposed to leave Earth on their first official trip for another two years.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
