have been threading
- present perfect progressive of thread.
Example Sentences
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Alone, with one of Lighter's saddle-horses under him, his baggage secured behind the saddle, he might have been threading the dunes of the Columbia now.
From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff
These black-hooded Sisters of the Coast, keeping their lonely vigils, were as safe from beach-combers and sea-prowlers as their white-capped namesakes would have been threading the lonely suburbs of some city.
From Tides of Barnegat by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
