have been persecuting
- present perfect progressive of persecute.
Example Sentences
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“If you have this paranoid streak, this vigilance, this sense that others have been persecuting you for years, there’s an accumulation of maltreatment and an intense urge to stop that persecution,” Meloy said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2017
“If you have this paranoid streak, this vigilance, this sense that others have been persecuting you for years, there’s an accumulation of maltreatment and an intense urge to stop that persecution,” Dr. Meloy said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
You have been persecuting another man under the belief that he killed Tom Hamon.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by Oxenham, John
And he is the man you have been persecuting ever since he came to this place.
From The Unknown Wrestler by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)
And the question stole into his mind, "Could Mrs. Dormer-Smith have been persecuting May on his account?"
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
