cherish
verb (used with object)
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
have been cherishing
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present perfect progressiveof cherish.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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“We have been cherishing and enjoying Tinslee being home,” Lewis said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
But should the point of music ever to have been cherishing the memory of buying something?
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2012
If you have been cherishing any hope of winning Rex Lyon, abandon it at 129 once.
From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Libbey, Laura Jean
I shut my eyes to the presence of several others because I fancied them to be quiet and incapable of forming bad designs, and they are serpents I have been cherishing in my bosom.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
While the world regarded them as having been utterly defeated, and proved to have been cherishing a delusion, their source of consolation was still the word of God.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
