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
You have been recounting the pranks of imaginary ghosts; let me show you the workings of some real spirits, evil and good, that haunt every heart and home, making its misery or joy.
From The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story by Alcott, Louisa May
I have been recounting real slices of history.
From War and the Weird by Phillips, Forbes
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 Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland
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 Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
