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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Surrounded by shelves stacked with brightly coloured paperbacks – with titles including Just For the Summer, Swept Away and The Friendship Fling – young women are milling around, chatting and flicking through books.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
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
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
People are milling along the tracks, waiting for something in this poorest of poor places.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
