consort
noun
a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch.
is consorting
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present progressiveof consort (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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"While there may be good reasons for Apple consorting with Microsoft, this is consorting with an inferior competitor," says Larry Fox, founder of a long-running Apple user group.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 21, 2010
She is in the heart of the Irish Theatre and the Modern Poetry movements,—and when she is not hobnobbing with playwrights and poets she is consorting with the Irish nobility and gentry.
From Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
I have your own word for it that your favorite amusement is consorting with criminals, and that money you flashed may have been stolen for all I know!
From The Madness of May by Frederic Dorr Steele
She inveighs against the dangerous spirit pervading the colony: she laments to think that her unhappy son is consorting with people who, she fears, will be no better than rebels and traitors.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
What I had in mind was that Nels Anderson surely is consorting with Grandall and probably has been all along.
From The Auto Boys' Mystery by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
