dismount
verb (used without object)
to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.
is dismounting
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present progressiveof dismount (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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He is dismounting, and now he swings his bridle reins over his arm, and, with genuine knightly courtesy, holds his hand out to Countess Mathilda to help her from her saddle.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Why, there's Harry—father, Kate—Harry is dismounting at the door.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution by Oliver Bell Bunce
Now, about the time the first teamster gets his wheel locked, the one in the rear of him is dismounting for the same purpose.
From The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put by Harvey Riley
A general comes upon the scene, with a whip in his hand, and a studied movement not only suggests that he is dismounting from a horse, but outlines the animal itself.
From The Civilization of China by Herbert Allen Giles
Half an hour afterwards, everybody is dismounting from the sledges, greetings are being exchanged, and steaming horses led away to their stables by smiling retainers.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables
