marry
verb (used with object)
to take in marriage.
is marrying
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present progressiveof marry (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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It’s a modest film about working-class black life in the neighborhood, centered on a man, Pierce, who works at his parents’ dry cleaners, and whose white-collar brother is marrying into a wealthier black family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
The benefit to clients is marrying our top-down macroeconomic view with the bottom-up credit selection.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
It’s one of the many reasons his fiancee, Jeanne Swerlin, 96, is marrying him.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
In the opening moments of the show, she learns on social media that her ex-husband is marrying a younger woman — a white yoga instructor.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2024
She has shut herself up in a convent, but just when her father is marrying again she decides to resume her place in his household.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
