lodge
noun
a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
have been lodging
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present perfect progressiveof lodge.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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My cellar is empty, and naturally so, for I have been lodging two hundred soldiers and fifteen officers.
From The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas
It is also forbidden to let houses or rooms in which infected persons have been lodging, or to make false statements to persons negotiating for the hire of such rooms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
"I have been lodging until now in Holborn," Cyril replied; "but I am going to move."
From When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He have been lodging at the George and Dragon, sir.
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
