furnish
verb (used with object)
to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
has been furnishing
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present perfect progressiveof furnish (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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The pandemic has been furnishing new and distressing episodes almost weekly for more than two years now.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
For 18 years, Frank Buck has been going to Asia on such missions, has been furnishing U. S. cities with prize exhibits, "firsts," only animals of their kind in captivity, etc., etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bolivia has been furnishing more than one-fourth of the world's supply of tin for many years.
From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols
In one instance a contractor of laborers of foreign birth has been furnishing them for all kinds of farm work.
From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Thomas Forsyth Hunt
The produce was saved and sown, and has been furnishing food for the table during the past winter, but what a progeny!
From The Cauliflower by A. A. (Arthur Alger) Crozier
