wish
verb (used with object)
to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause).
has been wishing
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present perfect progressiveof wish (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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"To have a name on that stone, that's what everybody has been wishing forever," Ivy Hill's Linda Tamburri said in a quote to CBS.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2022
Now we can live in the woods, as Lu has been wishing; for a dry southerly wind follows this, with a blue smoke filming all the distant fields.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
It was only by the merest accident that I found out what poor Marie-Jeanne has been wishing for all her life.”
From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes
We have plenty of room, and Mrs. Baggert has been wishing for some one to nurse.
From Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
"Karen has been wishing for you particularly to-night — but I don't know that that is any sign, except to the superstitious, that she is in particular danger."
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
