- present perfect progressive of peel (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Slowly but surely, Dr. Lysiak has been peeling back the layers of aquatic secrecy surrounding these white-chinned travelers of the Arctic Ocean.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023
Since Dubitsky painted the mural, the spray paint has been peeling off and the elements have faded the portrait.
From Washington Times • Mar. 30, 2018
The denial has been peeling away slowly for several years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, MacVeagh is just the same man; he hasn't changed a bit in all those years; he has been peeling Mr. Mitchell lately.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark
He has been peeling your neck pretty bad, ain't he?
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.
