slave
noun
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
am slaving
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present progressiveof slave (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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Here I am slaving away for about seventy-five dollars per month, year in and year out.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
The girls think that they are busy, but long after they are asleep at night I am slaving away correcting exercises.
From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Percy Tarrant
I’m sent on a wild goose chase after a confounded Tompkins and on my return I am coolly snubbed by the wife and daughter of the man for whom I am slaving!
From Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Shirley
It's too bad, when I am slaving here, for Eben to waste my substance on riotous living.
From Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Horatio Alger
You certainly have the art of putting your ideas with remarkable force and clearness; now that I am slaving over proof-sheets it makes me almost envious.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by James Marchant
