flog
verb (used with object)
is flogging
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present progressiveof flog (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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“Nick is flogging a dead horse in his theories,” Aidan Dodson, an Egyptologist at the University of Bristol, said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
Conde Nast is flogging off three of its titles – Brides, W magazine and Golf Digest – after reporting losses of $120m.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2018
A couple is flogging a collection of Care Bears, and so on.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2012
Washington is flogging the agencies in public, but the dirty little secret is that the government relies on ratings heavily and shows no sign of changing.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2010
There is something respectable in the names of a Spanish fleet; and one feels that he is flogging gentlemen, at least, while he is at work on them.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper
