vend
verb (used with object)
to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling.
are vending
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present progressiveof vend.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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There are vending machines, and TVs showing basketball, and signs he can’t read, and three buses outside.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2017
Regional processors are vending lactofermented foodstuffs at farmers markets and co-ops.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2010
Old women are vending pies and cakes at the gates, and little boys are sporting over the newly-made graves, that the wind has lashed into furrows.
From An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
"Yet he has carried off half-a-dozen to the supper-room, where at a side table three of my compatriots are vending knick-knacks, to add a little beef to their ragoûts."
From The Westcotes by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And these interlopers blending thoughts of fame and pelf are vending Various wares while they're ascending.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
