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
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
Yungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, had been touring his album Idols, which was released in June.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025
The two had been touring the country for 16 months, with her singing and playing guitar as a warm-up to his antiwar stemwinders.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
It was past eight o'clock when the four-in-hand on which the new member had been touring the constituency drove up to the Tallyn door.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
