order
noun
have been ordering
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present perfect progressiveof order.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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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
Shipowners have been ordering larger and larger freighters and container ships in the past decade.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2017
It isn't the prices, Mrs. Jardine—it's the quantity you have been ordering.
From At Home with the Jardines by Lilian Bell
