deport
verb (used with object)
to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
are deporting
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present progressiveof deport.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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“We don’t know how they are deporting so many of us, and then this happened to us,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
“They are deporting people who may be undocumented, but they do have rights under our laws.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
Look here, Captain, I'm afraid you are deporting yourself very much like a simpleton.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
