swear
verb (used without object)
to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
have been swearing
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present perfect progressiveof swear.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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Some commenters have been swearing off the West fandom and others defending him as a “free thinker.”
From Slate ● May 4, 2018
Had the voters obliged, Bird, the first woman to serve as her state's chief justice, would have been swearing in the nation's first elected black Governor, California's Thomas Bradley, on Jan. 3.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is true we have been swearing now, generation after generation, these eight thousand years for certain, and language expands with use.
From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard
I suppose you have been swearing at the east wind for parching your verdure, and are now weeping for the rain that drowns your hay.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
Not a shot fired, and I should have been swearing all the way home—but for the Boy.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud
