breakfast
noun
the first meal of the day; morning meal.
is breakfasting
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present progressiveof breakfast (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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The 35-year-old queen of "Tollywood," southern India's Tamil-language film industry, is breakfasting on croissants and strawberry jam with her three-year-old daughter on the executive floor of a five-star hotel in downtown Madras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Riis, Ribe, Denmark: Your son is breakfasting with us.
From Is There a Santa Claus? by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Mr. A. is breakfasting under one tree, with wife and children around, and Mr. B. is breakfasting under another tree, hard by; and messages, nods, and smiles pass backward and forward.
From Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Ah! here you are, M. Eugene," said Sylvie; "every one is breakfasting at home to-day."
From Father Goriot by Ellen Marriage
One day he is breakfasting with the Prussian Ambassador, "with princes and members of Parliament, I was the star of the morning," he writes to his wife.
From The Life of George Borrow by Herbert George Jenkins
