are saluting
- present progressive of salute.
Example Sentences
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I can’t tell whether they are saluting or trolling us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Elton John, Mavis Staples, Mumford, Brittany Howard, T Bone Burnett and Zac Brown are saluting the late Levon Helm, who won the Americana Grammy last year a few months before his death.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2013
“We are saluting our people for this zeal in protecting their religion, to grant victory to the Prophet,” the spokesman said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2012
Much more typical was a headline in Israel's largest daily, Yedioth Ahronoth: "The world is attacking, we are saluting."
From Time ● Jun. 11, 2010
And Fort William guns are saluting in one man's honor,* while the troops are firing the last volleys over the other's grave—over the grave of the brave, the gentle, the faithful Christian soldier.
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
