range
noun
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible.
has been ranging
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present perfect progressiveof range (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 Soviet merchant fleet has been ranging beyond bloc trade routes for years, of course, but never have its excursions been quite so bold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray; Though I own that my heart has been ranging, Of nature the laws I obey, For nature is constantly changing.
From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
The fatness of a young chicken, crate-fed on buttermilk and oatmeal, is a radically different thing from the fatness of an old hen that has been ranging around the corn-crib.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
They no sooner do so, however, than he assures them Archimago in his guise has been ranging through the forest, and that they must have met Duessa.
From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
This discouraged answer is hardly given, when another appears who has been ranging afar in search of a remedy—Kundry, arriving like the whirlwind, on a mare that staggers reaching the goal.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
