breakfast
noun
the first meal of the day; morning meal.
have been breakfasting
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present perfect progressiveof breakfast.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 the servants in the meantime, have been breakfasting below.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
But you look altogether too comfortable here, you and Mrs. Bywank!—As for me, I have been breakfasting with two bears, and had nearly forgotten how civilization acts.'
From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner
And to think that I might have been breakfasting at my club with the morning paper propped against the coffee-pot, in a silent room in the quiet of the city.
From Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock
Mademoiselle, we have been breakfasting together; we had a gay time of it, like men of spirit.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
