dive
verb (used without object)
to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
has been diving
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present perfect progressiveof dive (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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Mr. Trumper, who is now in his 50s, has been diving since he was 10 with his father, the founder of the commercial fishery Pacific Rim Seafood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
He has been diving on the reef for more than 30 years and has been working in tourism for more than 20.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2016
Foord has been diving in Biscayne sewage for the past eight years, documenting coral’s adaptive properties in Miami’s polluted urban watereways.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2015
Dan Montgomery, president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, said the union has been "diving deep" with its voter education and vote-getting efforts, including friends and family post cards, phone banking and direct mail.
From Chicago Tribune ● Nov. 1, 2014
I emerged at last like a man who has been diving in darkness, clutching at a new resolve for which he had groped desperately and long.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
