yacht
noun
a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
had been yachting
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past perfect progressiveof yacht.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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In California, where he had been yachting, Barry Goldwater got a personal telephone call from Johnson, heard him out and issued a statement of support even before the President made his appearance on television.
From Time Magazine Archive
A youth who had been yachting declared regretfully that on his return to Palma he was so brown that none of the girls would look at him!
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
He had been yachting, and he was beautifully burnt.
From Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope
I remembered the statement she had made during our journey from Paris together, to the effect that she and her father had been yachting with Rotherhithe in the Mediterranean.
From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby
She told me that she had been yachting with you in the Mediterranean, and spoke quite feelingly of your kindness to herself and her father.
From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby
