trek
verb (used without object)
to travel or migrate slowly or with difficulty, often through rough or unsettled territory.
had been trekking
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past perfect progressiveof trek.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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The sighting last week came from a group of teenage pig hunters who had been trekking through the bush and filmed the encounter on their phones.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
To a British student who had been trekking on the Kokoda trail in Papua New Guinea in 1998.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2021
A streak of brown on brown cut through the still, frigid morning on the Tibetan Plateau in China’s Szechuan Province, where the American photographer had been trekking in search of deer and sheep.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 20, 2017
Lowell’s wife, Stephanie Subak, had been trekking in the High Sierra near Bishop, Calif., with three girlfriends, including Gluck’s wife, Martha.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2017
We were stopped near the same pine forest we had been trekking alongside for hours.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
