wag
verb (used with object)
to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly.
have been wagging
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present perfect progressiveof wag.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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If the policemen had had tails, they wouldn’t have been wagging; if they’d had pointed ears, they would have been flattened back.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
Tongues have been wagging busily during your illness.
From Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
Think of all the years I have been wagging my tongue; think how I shall go on wagging it, till it is smothered in dust!'
From More Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
If Billy had possessed a tail I am certain that at that moment it would have been wagging vigorously.
From The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Harry Collingwood
"The tail seems, after all, to have been wagging the skate," I said, humorously; really sorry to find him so low-spirited.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 by Various
