has been meaning
- present perfect progressive of mean (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Her family has been meaning to relocate to Nigeria for a while but has not done so earlier because of the children's education.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
Patrons flock to her immediately at Nyum Bai, a small Cambodian restaurant in Oakland she has been meaning to try.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019
Max has been meaning to escape Amabel, but she tracks him down.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2017
Probably not, but the poet has been meaning to check out Miami anyway—and free verse is really, really hard.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017
She has other questions but she decides they are best saved for someone else to whom she has been meaning to pay a visit.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
