telephone
noun
an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
has been telephoning
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present perfect progressiveof telephone (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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But he has been telephoning financiers; one of them, Florida's William Crotty, says, "Governor Clinton indicated to me that he's going to take a serious look at running."
From Time Magazine Archive
Someone from the Gage Galleries has been telephoning all morning until it's enough to drive a body wild.
From Penny Nichols and the Black Imp by Joan Clark
"He has been telephoning and telegraphing off and on for the last two weeks; but he can't get any satisfaction—corporations, you know, don't materialize just for the rappings."
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
Dear child, I promised you shouldn't be disturbed, whatever happened, but Tony has been telephoning for the sixth time to-day.
From Vision House by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Look here, Nucky," said Blackly, "this gentleman has been telephoning the judge and the judge has paroled you once more in this gentleman's hands.
From The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Morrow
