have been ordering
- present perfect progressive of order.
Example Sentences
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Now customers have been ordering more cautiously and he has had to cut back hours for workers.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025
Fellow chefs from other restaurants have been ordering staff meals from him in solidarity, he says.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
For much longer than 50 years people have been ordering truth-tellers to shut up and punishing them when they refuse.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2019
However, alternative medicine practitioners have been ordering it custom-mixed from compounding pharmacies - businesses like the Massachusetts one involved in the current meningitis outbreak - and treating people with it.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2012
We gather from a contemporary that people who have been ordering large stocks of coal in the hope of escaping the new prices will be disappointed.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
