bud
are budding
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present progressiveof bud.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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There are budding partnerships between the foundation and homeless facilities in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago that provide space, food and other supplies for people seeking refuge with their pets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Cade Cavalli, MacKenzie Gore and Josiah Gray are budding arms whom the Nationals view as pieces of their future.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
As the Northeast and Midwest regions experience earlier warm days, fruits are budding sooner.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021
The nettles are up, the ferns are budding and frogs singing: Officially, spring is a month away, but it’s arriving already.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2017
With the opening spring, when the forests are budding into leaf, and the prairies gemmed with flowers; when a warm, faint haze rests upon the landscape,—then heart and senses are inthralled with luxurious beauty.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
