are beavering
- present progressive of beaver.
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of construction workers are beavering away on expanding the site.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2021
Republicans are beavering away to create something, but it’s a proposal.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2017
And I do wonder what professional historians are beavering away for in their ivory towers, if not to have history become part of the common currency of life.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
This is during a challenge when all the other contestants are beavering away with papier-mache and lightbulbs and fingernails.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
A five-minute drive down Highway 520, Bill Gates' guys are beavering away on their own powerful new video-game console, the Xbox.
From Time Magazine Archive
