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
Flex turned to B-Lovee and said he couldn’t tell him who had been supplying him with his music that hadn’t yet come out, but that it was in good hands.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
His company, mostly farmers by background he said, had been supplying drones and robotics to the government since before the war.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2022
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
