select
verb (used with object)
to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
have been selecting
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present perfect progressiveof select.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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State officials have been selecting projects through a rigorous process, and some funds have yet to be allocated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
The friends have been selecting photographs of old Tiger Bay to be displayed at National Museum Cardiff.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
So for that same seven decades, plant breeders have been selecting seeds from the uniformly green tomatoes, crossing them with other uniformly green ones and producing an uber-race of perfect visual specimens.
From Time ● Jul. 2, 2012
Here lay a rusty, hiltless sabre, there a sword with no belt; they must have been selecting weapons from this rubbish, and have ransacked even the old armouries.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
I assume that you will have already taught Nelly to canter whenever you wish her to do so, though she may have been selecting her own lead.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
