- present perfect progressive of drown (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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For years now, the manned space program has been drowning in conditionals.
From Time • Jan. 28, 2014
Stories have swirled for years that bungs were commonplace in a national sport that has been drowning in cash since the breakaway by first division clubs to form the Premier League, in 1992.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2012
Barely recuperated from winter storms that pounded Pacific Coast piers and unloaded record snows by the driftful, the region has been drowning in one of the wettest springs ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, they use a computer and software from McKesson HBOC, which have started to siphon away the sea of paperwork the small practice has been drowning in.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is as if he has been drowning for as long as he can remember and somebody has fetched him up for air.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
