stalk
noun
the stem or main axis of a plant.
have been stalking
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present perfect progressiveof stalk.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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Russian satellites have been stalking British military satellites, according to the head of the UK Space Command.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
They not only confront the monsters that have been stalking them, but together they find ways to coexist safely with what they fear most.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
I do want a relationship with her, so I don’t want her to feel like I have been stalking her.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
Then they went to my daughter’s closets, and then they showed me my stuff, and it’s like these people have been stalking me and I had no idea.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
Meanwhile ague, fever, and death have been stalking all night long about the plain, within a few yards of their couch, and not one pestilential breath has reached the charmed precincts of the forest.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
