carouse
verb (used without object)
to engage in a drunken revel.
have been carousing
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present perfect progressiveof carouse.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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They have been carousing, peradventure, with some young Greeks—who have just saluted them, en passant—at the famous coffee-house before mentioned.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
The crew, or at least the Captain, must shortly before have been carousing, for the remains of a banquet lay scattered around.
From The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales by G. P. (George Payn) Quackenbos
They have been carousing, peradventure, with some young Greeks--who have just saluted them, en passant--at the famous coffee-house before-mentioned.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies,— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
