wear
verb (used with object)
to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like.
had been wearing
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past perfect progressiveof wear.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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Robinson had been wearing Chuck Taylors in video footage, officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
During chemotherapy, I had been wearing a cold cap – the freezing helmet designed to help preserve hair during treatment.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Ortiz says an Arlington police detective called him and asked what fingernail polish Cynthia had been wearing when she disappeared.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
"Filipe Martins had been wearing an electronic ankle monitor until today and wasn't allowed to leave his city," his lawyer, Jeffrey Chiquini, said in a video posted on Instagram.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
And he still wore the star from that time pinned to the lapel of the three-piece woolen suit he had been wearing, summer and winter, for the last thirty years.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
