is anointing
- present progressive of anoint (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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It’s no longer as if the franchise is anointing the 23-year-old Beal as Wall’s co-star.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2017
And then, just as it sounds like Cavendish is anointing his successor, the man in Tour history is back.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2013
“They get into such a frenzy that the social order breaks down; everyone is anointing with everyone else,” Dr. Lynch Alfaro said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2012
And now she kisses them, and from a box Of alabaster is anointing them With precious ointment, filling all the house With its sweet odor!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
One of the suggested functions of these glands is anointing the velvet covering of the antlers.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis
