mill
noun
a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
are milling
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present progressiveof mill.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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Kobi Libii’s satirical comedy, “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” opens in an art gallery where people are milling about.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Friends and family have stuck around and are milling about, waiting to celebrate another victory with the best girls’ basketball team in the country.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Instead, we stop outside a two-storey concrete building where men in blue-and-white camouflage uniforms armed with assault rifles are milling about.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2020
Inside the old brick building, other vendors are milling around, drinking coffee from an industrial-sized urn and waiting to pick up the new edition.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
"With your permission—" José Duarte has joined a group of little boys who have come out of nowhere and are milling around the car, boasting how many automobiles they have ridden in.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
