compose
verb (used with object)
to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements.
is composing
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present progressiveof compose (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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Nasa says he’s not sure what he’ll do now that he’s graduated, but one thing he’s interested in is composing for musical theater — or possibly scoring films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Skipinnish, which plays traditional and contemporary Scottish music, is composing a new song in honour of the winner.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
It is the first movement in a longer work Machover is composing based on Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 novel “The Overstory,” a densely layered book about the intricately interconnected lives of trees and humans.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
For the sequel, “Hairspray” songwriter Marc Shaiman is composing a new score and writing original songs with Scott Wittman.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2016
I’m writing a poem, I tell you, and when one is composing a poem one must murmur.
From The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
