cover
verb (used with object)
to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of.
is covering
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present progressiveof cover (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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Discovery shareholders, Paramount is covering nearly $20 billion of the loans and fees WBD incurred throughout this whole process.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
LSU is covering the performance incentives from his previous contract.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026
Butler paid the workers a week of salary and is covering the employees’ share of health-insurance costs for the month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Its Durga is covering her eyes, her lion keeping vigil over the body of a woman wrapped in a white sheet.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
They have children, and the woman is covering their eyes and shooing them away, telling them to get on back in there and don’t come out, whatever you do, not till she says so.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
