incline
verb (used without object)
to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
is inclining
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present progressiveof incline (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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When I rise again, I see she is inclining toward a large pile of watermelons in the corner.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
I see, Mr. Harper, your heart is inclining to this place, though why or wherefore I cannot tell.
From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Walter Crane
Not only, however, is a negative proposition of this kind incapable of proof, but modern chemistry is inclining towards the contrary doctrine.
From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
More well-to-do farmers and peasantry, with small savings, arrive than formerly, and the preponderance, as to nationality, is inclining to the Germans.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
On the seventeenth day, at sunrise, she is inclining to the west.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
