dispose
verb (used with object)
to give a tendency or inclination to; incline.
are disposing
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present progressiveof dispose.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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Around 35% of materials end up as waste before they even reach the customer, says Ms Salvidge, and at the end of the chain we are disposing of more clothing than ever.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2022
Dear Readers: When you are disposing your ear-loop masks, snip the ear loops.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2021
For seven years you have been doing that, and now you are disposing of my darling over my head without consulting me.
From The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill by Sir Hall Caine
But I forget so easily that we live in a world of renunciations, and that often when we believe we are disposing, we are disposed.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Mrs. Russell Barrington
It is impossible to imagine, the horrible Howlings and strange Contortions that those Jugglers make of their Bodies, when they are disposing themselves to Conjure, or raise their Enchantments.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman
