have been starting
- present perfect progressive of start.
Example Sentences
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And, as sports journalist and historian Philip Barker explained to BBC Sport, had all gone to plan for France, Fontaine would not have been starting games at the World Cup in Sweden at all.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“People have been starting to come back home, and they need something good to focus on.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
For the last decade, Heartbeat Opera has treated the classics like rough drafts: The scores of “Carmen” and “Madama Butterfly,” “Fidelio” and “Der Freischütz” have been starting points for something fresh, urgent and immediate.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Several freshmen have been starting, including long-stick midfielder Sebastian Quintana and defenseman Bennett Wolfe.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
In that period, Saharans began to tend cattle and make pottery, then to keep sheep and goats, and they may also have been starting to domesticate sorghum and millet.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
