broach
noun
an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
is broaching
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present progressiveof broach (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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Even the otherwise circumspect Austrian media is broaching the topic.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is not the language of a lover who is broaching his love, and who hopes, however timidly, to consummate it before all the world by marriage.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Vernon Lee
There ensued a break in the conversation; then Kirkwood said, with the abruptness of one who is broaching a difficult subject: 'I should like to tell you what it is that's going wrong with me.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
