hasten
verb (used without object)
have been hastening
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present perfect progressiveof hasten.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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The report adds that coastal erosion rates have been hastening, with some spots on the coastline losing up to 100 feet of land to the sea each year.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
Ever since, passing tourists and fellow fanciers have been hastening to reassure him that he was right as rain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hannibal is said to have been hastening to relieve Tarentum, and to have been within five miles of it when it was taken.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
Accident has favored the foundation of the social compact; and once founded, the facts have been hastening to their consummation faster than the monikin mind has been able to keep company with them.
From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore
That at the very moment when she had fled up the hillside to think of him more deliciously he should have been hastening home to denounce her short-comings!
From Summer by Wharton, Edith
