believe
verb (used without object)
to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.
have been believing
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present perfect progressiveof believe.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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All summer long I have been trying to remember something; something untrue that you have been believing, some falsehood for which I was responsible.
From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Yes, that's what I have been believing for some time past, but I didn't say anything about it to mother.
From Old Ebenezer by Opie Percival Read
Evidently the mutineers have been believing us guilty of the disappearance of the second mate, just as we have been believing them guilty of the disappearance of the first mate.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
After I have been believing such things with all my heart and soul, two results always ensue: first, I can't write plainly to the eye; secondly, I can't write sensibly to the mind.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
Some of such of them are ones working and getting sick then and going on believing in everything in which they have been believing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
