escort
noun
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy.
have been escorting
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present perfect progressiveof escort.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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A diverse group of volunteers, including faith leaders, grandmothers and retired lawyers, have been escorting people to immigration courts across the country to offer moral and logistical support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
The tug was believed to have been escorting a small cruise ship into harbour when it suddenly overturned.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2023
"I judge from the swan's-down on your doublet that you have been escorting Ophelia to the opera in the regulation cloak."
From The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs
At the end of the fiscal year United States naval forces in France are stated to have been escorting troops into France at the rate of 134,000 per month.
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
She chatted about nothing in particular, and Peter thought to himself that he might almost have been escorting Hilda home.
From Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
