slave
noun
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
are slaving
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present progressiveof slave.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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Chefs rarely get Christmas off - if they are not cooking for customers, they are slaving over a hot stove for family.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
There’s something funny about Steve and Rob eating great food while all these people are slaving away in the kitchen and all they’re interested in is talking about themselves and their careers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2017
I'm sure the majority are slaving away at this tough job for all the right reasons.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
The pampered paladins of the newspaper business are the sportswriters who freeload Florida sun and Kentucky dew while their less glamorous associates are slaving back home over typewriters and copy desk rim.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are a good-for-nothing man; here you are slaving yourself to death with hardly a minute to spare, and you must write a review on my book!
From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin
