have been spinning
- present perfect progressive of spin.
Example Sentences
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In many ways, the pharma-focused psychedelics movement is just reinventing the wheel that West Coast hippies have been spinning since the 1960s, and many Indigenous communities for centuries before them.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
Walking out at 0-2 after only five deliveries, following a draining 157.1 overs as leader in the field, his head must surely have been spinning.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
The study also showed that a large amount of fast-moving material was ejected during the explosion, suggesting that it must have been spinning very quickly when it exploded.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Beside their seats a large wheel, called the stabilizer trim wheel, which rotates as the horizontal tail swivels, would have been spinning fast and noisily.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2018
I might as well have been spinning in a round metal tub, in a twenty-foot wall of water, washing down off that mountain.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
