breakfast
noun
the first meal of the day; morning meal.
are breakfasting
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present progressiveof breakfast.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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In the alley behind, flies are breakfasting on a patch of distinctly human-looking, half-dried feces.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2015
From the tarns, where skittish thoroughbreds are breakfasting, comes the metallic clank of feed tubs, or an occasional hoof thump.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am rather glad you are breakfasting late; it is a bit of luck for me.
From Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands
Ernest and Theodore, the scientist and the clergyman, are breakfasting together.
From Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
"They are breakfasting in the garden," answered the maid he had accosted.
From St. Peter's Umbrella by Kálmán Mikszáth
