mill
noun
a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
is milling
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present progressiveof mill (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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Further support for the importance of disengaged circuit operations comes from “offline” brain activity when an animal is milling around doing nothing, consuming a reward or just sleeping.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2022
A crowd is milling purposefully outside Kolachi, and cars are triple-parked.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
“And the strings are the focal point of the axis. Everything is milling around those central strings.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2017
The fact that it happened late morning of the Fourth of July, when nobody is working and everybody is milling about in some sort of recreational mode, everything just sort of stopped.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2016
A crowd of officers is milling around a cell near the front gate of B-block when I get there; this cell is the office of the officer in charge, or OIC.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
