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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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
The doctor had been "storing data on hundreds of different women", the prosecution said.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2021
The contractor had been storing the information on an unclassified network and officials told Nakashima and Sonne that the data could be considered classified when aggregated.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2018
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
