motor
noun
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
have been motoring
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present perfect progressiveof motor.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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Landed at Seattle a week ago, and have been motoring east from Chicago to see the country.
From Lady Larkspur by Meredith Nicholson
"My likes and dislikes are not, apparently, of the smallest moment to you, or you would not have been motoring late on Sunday at all."
From Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
So far as war was concerned, I might as well have been motoring through New England.
From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
We are two girls who have been motoring over the hills.
From Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson
I have been motoring all morning, in this stiff breeze, and I feel as if my face will crack if I don’t hurry to cream it.
From The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways by Margaret Penrose
