nod
verb (used without object)
to make a slight, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command.
have been nodding
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present perfect progressiveof nod.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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"Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord"—he might have been nodding assent to that instead of to Elinor's low-spoken vow.
From The Marriage of Elinor by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
"Not at all," answered Paul, "I have been enjoying my pipe, and as Miss Guir seemed disposed to be quiet, think I must have been nodding myself."
From The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale
According to the latest accounts, Sir Henry Morgan, by a singular oversight of Fate, who must have been nodding at the time, died in his bed—not peacefully I trust—and was buried in consecrated ground.
From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Will Crawford
I must have been nodding and swaying around rather loosely, when I felt myself going heels over head into the snow.
From Driven Back to Eden by Edward Payson Roe
I must have been nodding for a minute.
From The Colonel's Dream by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
