bead
noun
a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
is beading
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present progressiveof bead (3rd person singular).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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His daughter, Maya is beading quietly at the table.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2021
The grape is beading, its tendrils fall in a veil of threads whose delicacy puts to shame the lace-makers.
From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de
O Dis, even now,570 A clammy dew is beading on my brow, At mere remembering her pale laugh, and curse.
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John
