have been composing
- present perfect progressive of compose.
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
I have been composing in the fields this morning, and came home to write down the first rude sheet of my preface, when I heard that your man had brought a note from you.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
During this time the brother poets must have been composing or arranging the Lyrical Ballads, which were published the following year, i.e.
From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James
At this time Emerson may have been composing his "Wood Notes" or "Threnody" in the cool pine groves of Concord.
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston
He might have been composing a hymn to the unhasting and unresting march of that divinity.
From Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia
