neigh
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a horse; whinny.
are neighing
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present progressiveof neigh.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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My horses are neighing: The morning twilight is near.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
The shaggy little nags of the Huns are neighing in the streets of Constantinople.
From The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn
Steeds are neighing, gallants glittering; 10 Gay, her smiling lord to greet, From her mullion'd chamber-casement Smiles the Duchess Marguerite.
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Matthew Arnold
My horses are neighing, They shudder and snort for the bound.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
Some that scarce have tarried By the shore are carried Sea-ward to be married To the glad gods there: Triton's horn is playing, Neptune's steeds are neighing, Restless with delaying For a bride so fair.
From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy
