Examples of 'had been eating' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been eating"
The phrase "had been eating" is the past perfect continuous tense of the verb "eat." It is used to describe an action that was ongoing or in progress in the past and lasted up until another point in the past. For example, "She had been eating dinner when the phone rang."
How to use "had been eating" in a sentence
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had been eating
This is what the coyote had been eating.
She had been eating rat toys.
He wanted to ask him if he had been eating.
I had been eating rice for a month.
The food that the caterpillars had been eating.
Iguanas had been eating the remains.
I mean just take a look at what we had been eating.
They had been eating the flower.
I took a sandwich that the priest of this church had been eating.
He said he had been eating leaves and grass to survive.
A monkey without a brain sitting on a branch had been eating bananas as well.
I had been eating when you called.
They were without food and had been eating wild vegetables to survive.
I had been eating potato chips.
It looked as though she had been eating her own litter.
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Had been eating these potatoes already for a couple of years.
The stress had been eating me alive.
He walked back into the kitchen where he had been eating breakfast.
I had been eating nuts.
He was not hungry because had had been eating all day long.
She had been eating and drinking normally until yesterday.
The boy had a stomachache because he had been eating chocolates.
Something had been eating me inside.
Two days later he asked his wife if it had been eating grass again.
We had been eating dog.
And we ate only a little meat that had been eating what was natural.
I had been eating my kale.
This was certainly not what we had been eating out in the banqueting hall.
We had been eating macrobiotic.
Luke gained weight because he had been eating pizza three times a day.
I had been eating crazy healthy since the beginning of the year.
Now up to this point our ancestors had been eating meat raw.
She had been eating though not responding to the antibiotic.
All however will admit that they had been eating too many carbohydrates.
It had been eating away at his brain for the last nine months.
It was incredible food after what we had been eating for the previous two weeks.
The man had been eating with friends when the robbers showed up.
I have known for years something had been eating on Calem like an acid.
He had been eating food all over the store for the last hour.
It is understood anorexic Jackson had been eating just one meagre meal a day.
I had been eating three meals a day and having desert every night.
That was not excessive compared to what I had been eating.
The two of them had been eating lunch together every day.
And I finally finished some translating work that had been eating up my time.
The dirty business she had been eating blindly from exploded in her face.
And then I was just eating about half of what I had been eating.
Her parents had been eating in a nearby restaurant when she disappeared from their hotel room.
You are ingesting it, quite definitely as if you had been eating it.
It had been eating me up for MONTHS as to what to do.
I had no energy because I had been eating almost nothing for days.
