visit
verb (used with object)
to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc..
had been visiting
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past perfect progressiveof visit.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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She had been visiting her mother for three weeks and boarded a plane to go home just a few hours before the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes struck on June 24.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
The guest, reported by Jewish News to be "visibly Orthodox Jewish" 24-year-old Sruly Fogel from New York, said he had been visiting the UK for a wedding and the incident left him "really uncomfortable".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
So Florence Balogun returned to Brooklyn, where she had been visiting relatives, and waited for her second son to be born.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Speaking to BBC Look East's Amelia Reynolds, he said he had been visiting Norfolk since the late 1970s, including with Springwatch to broadcast from Wild Ken Hill by the coast.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Europeans had been visiting New England for at least a century.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
