deport
verb (used with object)
to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
is deporting
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present progressiveof deport (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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The administration needs to convince Americans that its priority actually is deporting criminals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Strangely — or maybe not so strangely — at the same time that the U.S. is deporting such “despicable human beings,” it’s demanding the extradition of others, including dozens of Mexicans.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
“The U.S. is deporting a lot to Haiti, now I don’t know if I can enter or leave,” Petion said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
Even though the US is deporting some 300,000 people a year, it would take 30 years to clear the backlog.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2014
Ten thousand landslides take place every spring, contributing their tons of mud to the millions that the river is deporting to the broad catch basins called the Athabaska and Great Slave Lakes.
From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Ernest Thompson Seton
