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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Skipinnish, which plays traditional and contemporary Scottish music, is composing a new song in honour of the winner.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
“We are privileged enough to be living in a time where Mozart is composing symphonies,” said Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
“We are privileged enough to be living in a time where Mozart is composing symphonies,” the filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said Thursday, introducing the film’s first screening outside Japan.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
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
The students meanwhile will recite the history of Dobozy; the poet Gyárfás is at this moment writing the verses for it, and the chief cantor is composing the music.
From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
