have been smoking
- present perfect progressive of smoke.
Example Sentences
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Barbecue experts say it’s important that he picked up his first nomination only after his 2017 move to Charleston, although Scott and his family have been smoking meat in Hemingway since the 1970s.
From Washington Times ● May 21, 2018
Anecdotal evidence from Ho-Chunk members I interviewed also suggests fewer people have been smoking in the past few years.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 29, 2018
Agrees University of Chicago Astronomer W. David Arnett: "There have been smoking guns, but we've never seen the act committed before."
From Time Magazine Archive
I spoke as coolly as I could, although to be truthful I might as well have been smoking dried oak leaves.
From The Birthright by Hocking, Joseph
They think one of the men must have been smoking and dropped a light in the hay.
From The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds by Stratemeyer, Edward
