partake
verb (used without object)
to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed byin ).
is partaking
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present progressiveof partake (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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The boy has a crown of gold hair that looks like a halo, and he is partaking of a breakthrough in human industry whose promise has not waned.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
“When you go to the track, you see a 98, 97% really Caucasian audience or crowd that is partaking in the sport,” Daniels said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2020
Fish, meat and fowl are so disguised with this article and with spices, that one is fain to resort to the bill of fare, to ascertain of what he is partaking.
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou
I took her to 10 bis, Rue Dufay, where at the present moment she is partaking of coffee and chocolate caramels.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 by Various
The splendid strength of the dense coal and the stove that is partaking in any noise in any vacation is so sweetly an origin that the meaning is never confused.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
