dine
verb (used without object)
to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
have been dining
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present perfect progressiveof dine.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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US presidents have been dining at the former speakeasy’s coveted tables since Franklin D Roosevelt more than 80 years ago, and it is said that John F Kennedy spent the eve of his inauguration there.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2016
The dissonant quatrian Hughes Lowden Hoover Dawes which politican wiseacres have been dining at the public for weeks to describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pakistan's new president Asif Zardari was supposed to have been dining at the Marriott when the bomb went off, but had decided at the last minute to eat at the prime minister's house.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cheerful cosmopolitan must have been dining with Mr. Midas, and must have sat much too long at table.
From From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 by George William Curtis
I suppose you have been dining out rather late.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
