piggyback
adverb
on the back or shoulders.
are piggybacking
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present progressiveof piggyback.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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Organizers of one such drive in New York are piggybacking on KelTec’s license to export 60 long guns they recently collected.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
“They are piggybacking on the South to sell the weapons and delivering a message of ‘forget me not.’”
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021
In France, researchers at the Pasteur Institute are piggybacking on the tried-and-true vaccine against measles.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Cocoa is Ghana’s other natural bounty, and producers are piggybacking on the oil boom.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2018
We are piggybacking on the expertise and brilliance of this trainer.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2013
