relate
verb (used with object)
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
have been relating
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present perfect progressiveof relate.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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My empathy and understanding of what that must be like to go through that is how I have been relating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
“The group look as if I have been relating how cave dwellers created fire by rubbing dry twigs together.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2019
Some subjects thought they had a rich social life but may only have been relating well with the couch.
From Time Magazine Archive
However this may be, the shipmaster is said to have been relating his dream to the seamen on the deck of his vessel when the boat which was conveying Pompey came into view.
From History of Julius Caesar by Abbott, Jacob
Perhaps then the whole story may be quite as fabulous as the part of it which I have been relating.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
