compose
verb (used with object)
to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements.
have been composing
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present perfect progressiveof compose.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 have been composing my whole life, although I didn’t know initially that was what I was doing,” RZA says about the 11-track album, which was heavily influenced by his philosophical journey towards Chan Buddhism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Here I have been composing my soul to do without it, and here you are vexing me with your vain suggestions.”
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
He almost shivered as the conviction came to him that he must have been composing for posterity, since he did not desire present publicity.
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
I have been composing so much that it really seems quite uncanny at times.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes
Those gossips in the nursery were a great source of disturbance to Beth when she ought to have been composing herself to sleep.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand
