has been composing
- present perfect progressive of compose (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg has been composing a piece for the piano that charts the dramatic events unfolding around him.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
Crossett has altered the format of the visual city symphonies he has been composing for years, but the material is familiar.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
This New York-based singer-songwriter has been composing and performing folk-inspired acoustic tunes since she was a Barnard student in the early 1980s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
Abels, 55, has been composing since he was a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
By-the-bye, when at Rome go and hear the opera Verdi has been composing for that place on the story of Adrienne, and tell me all about it.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell
