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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The couple had been visiting relatives in Dundee and had gone to bed at the Strathmore Avenue branch of Travelodge.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
He had been visiting his future in-laws and wanted to eat at an Italian deli and see Tony Soprano’s house before flying home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
It turned out that Trujillo had been visiting some official’s house next door, and attracted by the shouts from our volleyball game below, he had gone out on the balcony.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
