lance
noun
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
are lancing
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present progressiveof lance.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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Shaw's weapons are lancing wit and blazing rhetoric.
From Time Magazine Archive
“He’s telling his experiences, and the beggars are lancing about, roaring with laughter.”
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by Groome, William H. C.
