Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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To illustrate this, Ford has interpreted the idea of “battle” literally: the mannequins, in all their gorgeous chiffons and fringed and fan-pleated frippery are fencing and flying through the air karate-chopping each other.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2022
“In place of fans and feather boas are fencing foils and front kicks.”
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2022
They are fencing you out to-day from the only field on which you can gain bread for your starving wives and children.
From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton
Even Mike is laughing at the poor way in which you are fencing with me.
From Polly and Eleanor by Harold S. Barbour
Nothing is more interesting than good debate of this kind, when men who are fencing or sparring with their wits instead of their hands.
From Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 by Various
