nod
verb (used without object)
to make a slight, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command.
am nodding
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present progressiveof nod (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Despite being constantly offered a Used Machinery Auction and a Great Source of Wood Patterns by pop-up ads that clearly do not know me very well, I soon find that I am nodding my head.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2010
I am nodding my head and tapping my feet to the rhythm and singing along.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
"If I had but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle, To knock my nose against when I am nodding, I should sing like a nightingale."
From Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by George Bell
Give him some, or give him all, I am nodding to his fall!
From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey
