faint
adjective
lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc..
are fainting
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present progressiveof faint.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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"People are standing in queues for hours to get minimal food rations. People are fainting in the bread queues," local journalist Irina Hayrapetyan says in a recorded voice message from inside the ethnic Armenian enclave.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023
In a phone interview, Jane Ferguson of the PBS NewsHour, one of the few Western correspondents still in Kabul, said: “The scenes are apocalyptic. People are fainting and dying. Children are going missing.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
“Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection,” she said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2021
"The chaps are fainting when they are on parade, but they don't get much sympathy here," he wrote.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2018
And I know they noticed it, and maybe they have done made way with mother—My lady! oh! you are fainting!
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
