seed
noun
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
are seeding
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present progressiveof seed.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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“Most producers have a set idea of what they are seeding and will probably stick to that,” Martin said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
We’ve got teams playing on campuses that are seeding outbreaks in cities, regions and towns.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
“There are definitely things we are seeding in the sites that will come to play in later episodes, like in the next episode and the finale,” Phillips says.
From The Verge ● May 24, 2018
Speaking at the School of Mines in drought-threatened New Mexico, Langmuir denounced the commercial rainmakers, many of them woefully ignorant of the art, who are seeding the atmosphere with silver iodide throughout the dry Southwest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along the mound by it the bluebells are seeding, the hedge has been cut and the ground is strewn with twigs.
From Pageant of Summer by Richard Jefferies
