auction
noun
a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
have been auctioning
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present perfect progressiveof auction.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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Sotheby’s and Christie’s have been auctioning drawings for more than 200 years and somehow this remains one of the few “connoisseurial” collecting areas that has survived the vagaries of 21st-century art-buying fashion.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014
