crouch
verb (used without object)
to stoop or bend low.
has been crouching
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present perfect progressiveof crouch (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Another has been crouching for five minutes behind a tuft of grass, watching like a cat at a rat-hole for some one to come by and be pounced upon.
From Ways of Wood Folk by Charles Copeland
I believed I smelt a lion some two hours ago, and perhaps he has been crouching near us, watching for one of us.”
From Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
An immense white fog-bank which has been crouching on the horizon rears suddenly and rushes across the ocean, whose low mutter rises to a roar.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
She has been crouching all day beside her, hiding her face in her gown.
From In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman
She has been crouching all day by her, hiding her face in her gown.
From For the Cause by Stanley J. Weyman
