stuff
noun
the material of which anything is made.
had been stuffing
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past perfect progressiveof stuff.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 starters, it validated quarterback Michael Penix Jr. The fifth-year junior had been stuffing the stat sheet all year long, coming into Saturday’s game second in the nation with 3,232 passing yards.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
It appears Dunlap had been "stuffing the channel," persuading retailers through discounts to buy more gas grills than they would normally need.
From Time Magazine Archive
For an hour and a half people had been stuffing as if their lives depended on it—"one feeding like forty."
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
"Jim" had been stuffing himself for the last half hour, until he had grown as stupid as an over-fed anaconda.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
A Convention of female writers, which for two days had been stuffing Woman’s couch with goose-quills and hailing the down of a new era, adjourned with unabated enthusiasm, shouting, “Place aux dames!”
From Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce
