have been trotting

• present perfect progressive

  present perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.

  of trot.
  trot

  verb (used without object)

  (of a horse) to go at a gait between a walk and a run, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs, but not quite simultaneously, so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground, and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

have been trotting

The Dukes of Berry and Brittany, two decent men, might have been trotting along the road, in satin cuirasses which imitated steel.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

So I arrive in my roundabout way near the point towards which I have been trotting ever since we set out.

From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

He seemed to have been trotting quietly along the trail with his nose down, as though following the scent, when he became aware that his game had stopped, and were surveying him with some interest.

From The Hunters of the Ozark by Edward Sylvester Ellis

"I have been trotting around doing pious errands so long that I 've lost all my sulphur-and-brimstone flavor, and now I smell like spikenard and myrrh."

From The Holy Cross and Other Tales by Eugene Field

The horses have been trotting, galloping, and jumping.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy

Related Words

• amble
• hurry
• jog
• lope
• scamper