Examples of 'had been playing' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been playing"

This phrase is used to describe a past action that occurred over a period of time and has now been completed. It suggests that an individual was engaged in an activity, such as playing a sport or a musical instrument, for a specific duration in the past

How to use "had been playing" in a sentence

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had been playing
But if he had been playing his oboe.
It would have been if anyone else had been playing.
I had been playing the guitar all morning.
He fitted in as if he had been playing for us for years.
I had been playing the piano all morning.
Questions that had been playing on my mind.
I had been playing with him for a month or so.
For someone who had been playing tennis.
I had been playing for three hours.
A few days ago we had been playing dominoes.
He had been playing it upon its arm.
I do not remember if we had been playing cards.
They had been playing for national honor.
S if this whole time he had been playing like a child.
He had been playing with his cock.

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It was pretty crazy to those of us who had been playing for years.
The game we had been playing was no longer significant.
He powered up the video game he had been playing earlier.
Somebody had been playing with her mind.
Just six hours earlier his son had been playing there.
I knew he had been playing around town.
I simply asked him to show me what he had been playing with.
It was as if they had been playing together for years.
Had been playing football in the yard.
That was the music he had been playing in the band before.
I had been playing for about a year at the time.
The radio had been playing.
I had been playing since vanilla WoW.
I asked him how long he had been playing the ragtime piano.
He had been playing golf all day.
The fate of the van had been playing on our minds.
He had been playing with other children and was unarmed.
She told officials the two had been playing the smartphone app.
They had been playing in the mountain.
A lot of the tunes on the new record we had been playing for a while.
Chance had been playing with them.
I already had the patch downloaded and had been playing for over an hour.
She had been playing with him.
Assuming the same position he had when he had been playing with toys.
Music had been playing full blast for hours.
She had just fallen while she had been playing with the other kids.
Dorsey had been playing at half speed until today.
I began playing the sport after my older sister had been playing for a few years.
The tape had been playing for five minutes.
Members have repeatedly asked me what band had been playing during the dinner hour.
I had been playing with a dangerous thing.
Over the past few years prevention had been playing an increasingly important role.
I had been playing the game rummikub.
Brett brought life to the songs that the trio had been playing acoustically for weeks.
They had been playing this game for weeks.

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