recount
verb (used with object)
to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
have been recounting
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present perfect progressiveof recount.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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Eyewitnesses and the families of victims have been recounting their ordeal.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
The facts we have been recounting have been established by the experiments of physiological psychology.
From Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
But while I have been recounting these remarks, I have wandered far from my original subject, and left my poor log-house quite in an unfinished state.
From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Some time after the matters I have been recounting happened, two of the pakehas who were "knocking about" Mr. ——'s premises, went fishing.
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by A Pakeha Maori
This, then," the Prince remarked, raising his eyeglass, "is the young lady whose romantic history you have been recounting to me?
From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
