tour
noun
a traveling around from place to place.
had been touring
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past perfect progressiveof tour.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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According to news reports, the people who first got sick had been touring Argentina and Chile for months beforehand.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
The outfit had been touring in the US since February and were due to play their last stateside show on Friday.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
He said he had been touring the Gulf to pitch “hundreds of investors”—including sovereign-wealth funds—on his plan to accumulate ever more of the digital currency through myriad financial instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
The “Smash” and “Scorpion” star, who had been touring with her record-producer husband, did not specify what the tragedy was at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
They had been touring with him as his escort for some days.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
