contain
verb (used with object)
to hold or include within its volume or area.
have been containing
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present perfect progressiveof contain.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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What an inestimable companion such a scrap of paper would have been, containing some fruit of a mature life.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
