fidget
verb (used without object)
to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
has been fidgeting
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present perfect progressiveof fidget (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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Goudé has been fidgeting for you to come back.
From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
“You know how he has been fidgeting about the tigers.”
From The Rajah of Dah by George Manville Fenn
Rossiter who has been fidgeting through this dialogue considers that lunch is ready, so they proceed to the small dining-room, "the breakfast-room."
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
So this afternoon I have been abroad with a constable, and while I wrote this long letter to you he has been fidgeting in my easy chair.
From The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers
That moment has come for which she has been fidgeting and longing and scheming all day!
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
