supply
verb (used with object)
to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite.
had been supplying
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past perfect progressiveof supply.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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On Wednesday, rescuers digging through the ruins reached five survivors, whom they had been supplying with oxygen, water and food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
These plants had been supplying McDonald’s and Costco for years, and the corporations required regular audits.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
Shops in Hexham had been supplying purple ribbons all week to be placed around the town in her memory.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023
In addition, the vast economic aid that the government had been supplying to households has expired.
From Washington Times ● May 6, 2022
I told Chiron about the Triple G Ranch—how Quintus had bought his scorpions there and Geryon had been supplying Kronos’s army.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
