command
verb (used with object)
to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order.
have been commanding
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present perfect progressiveof command.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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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
He was advanced in life, tall, and of a form that might once have been commanding, but it was a little bowed by time—perhaps by care.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
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 Henry Rider Haggard
