gad
verb (used without object)
to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another.
have been gadding
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present perfect progressiveof gad.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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Faith, and while you have been gadding I might have had added a rasher of bacon.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I might have been gadding about safely with Sarah Churcher and her lot at this very hour, but you would have it otherwise, and so I finished up with neurasthenia.
From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett
I have been gadding about in Wall Street.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
"There has been no landing, and all the fools in Scotland have been gadding about the roads for nothing."
From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
And I would like to know where you and Odalite have been gadding to without saying a word to anybody.
From Her Mother's Secret by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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