shave
verb (used without object)
to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
is shaving
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present progressiveof shave (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 company’s coding tool Codex is growing quickly in popularity, and it is shaving costs by cutting other projects such as its video-generation app Sora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
And that doesn’t mean Musk is shaving off a few billion in savings here or there.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025
Chris is shaving his face and then they’re like, “Actually, you’re done. You can’t shoot anything.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Amazon is shaving $20 off the 41mm, aluminum models with GPS, dropping them down to $380.
From The Verge ● Nov. 23, 2021
It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
