personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
has been personating
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present perfect progressiveof personate (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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"An actor should never take his call in his own character, but always in that which he has been personating."
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
"Perhaps it may be well to use the key held by this man Keene, who has been personating me for so many days," Lieutenant Carstens said.
From Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
This gentleman here has been personating you for some reason or other, and the discovery caused the young lady to faint.
From Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches by Laurence Oliphant
