reserve
verb (used with object)
to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
have been reserving
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present perfect progressiveof reserve.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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I have been reserving this place for you, for I have been so anxious to know if you would do me a kindness.
From A Sweet Girl Graduate by L. T. Meade
I have been reserving this side all through my letter, in the conviction that I had something else to tell you.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
He seems to have been reserving his strength and making sure of his ground.
From Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge
I have been reserving it for some afternoon when we do not feel very energetic.
From The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman
We have been reserving it for two reasons—first, because it is a singularly happy anticipation of the discovery of the New World, so happy that it became a favorite stanza with the discoverer himself.
From The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West by Robert Edward Anderson
