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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Ride forth, therefore: your horses are neighing in the stall, as your worship says, and you might almost have added that the Señor Antonio is neighing in the house.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
They are neighing like anything; you never saw the like of them for wild horses.
From Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory
The shaggy little nags of the Huns are neighing in the streets of Constantinople.
From The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn
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
My horses are neighing: The morning twilight is near.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
