shop
noun
a retail store, especially a small one.
am shopping
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present progressiveof shop (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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“I am not planning to go to that one unless I am shopping at the mall.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
“I am shopping less,” Dalencia said, noting she will spend about $700 for holiday gifts this year, one-third less than last year.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
I have been known to wear university-branded clothing when I am shopping for real estate, hopefully drawing on the cultural value of colleges and students to counter any assumptions of me as buyer.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2013
So, with the guidance of my cardiologist, Dr. Robert Ascheim, I am shopping in the experimental boutiques.
From Time Magazine Archive
Halicarnassus is absurd and mulish in many things, but he knows I will not be hampered with him when I am shopping, and he obeys the smallest hint and stops outside.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
