stow
had been stowing
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past perfect progressiveof stow.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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For some days past he had been stowing away fragments from his scanty meals in his pockets.
From Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive by Homer Randall
All this time the red-head cook had been stowing away his housekeeping, exactly three times as fast as you would expect three men to do it.
From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
The first thing that met my eyes, was the toe of a boot sticking out of the pipe-clay—where we had been stowing it away, in the worked-out part of the shaft.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach
