have been commanding
- present perfect progressive of command.
Example Sentences
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I should have been commanding authority, not standing at the club door, embarrassingly ignorant of the secret code.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2021
Likewise, an NPR report published around the same time cited heightened interest abroad as the prime reason trappers have been commanding higher prices for furs.
From Time ● Feb. 10, 2014
I believe that I am reasonably well qualified to reflect that attitude, since I was the commissioning executive officer in Harder and have been commanding officer of Trigger, another of the new class .
From Time Magazine Archive
In this I believe I was right; otherwise a man of such attainments would have been commanding something bigger than a private yacht.
From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider
He would have been commanding his battalion now, if only he were free.
From The Zeppelin's Passenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
