desire
verb (used with object)
have been desiring
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present perfect progressiveof desire.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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For some forty years critics of the U.S.S.R. have been desiring, predicting, not to mention praying for, its collapse.
From Revolution by Mack Reynolds
You have been away a very long time, and the thorns are all out of my arms and my legs, and I have been desiring to see you.
From The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Perhaps you have been desiring God as an experience, or coveting him as a possession.
From God the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
"I have been desiring them to take open order for the last ten minutes, and they remain as they were."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various
