dot
noun
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
are dotting
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present progressiveof dot.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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But the already indicted criminal cases aren’t all that are dotting the trial calendar.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2023
“Many of them are at a point in their life when they may never go back on tour again and are dotting the Is and crossing the Ts on their estate planning.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2021
So though Mr. Nash’s portraits of Mr. Sanders are dotting the texts and chats of supporters, when it comes to the original dare, Mr. Nash jokes, “if you can tell, I failed miserably.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2015
The Port Authority has proposed a 750-ft.-wide corridor from Miami to Naples, and highway planners are "dotting in" roads that would further upset the park's water cycle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Marco Polo and Mungo Park—pioneers indeed, but ambitious souls who could not draw the line of demarcation between discovery and invention—the literary bones of these explorers are dotting the trackless wastes of the subway.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
