slave
noun
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
is slaving
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present progressiveof slave (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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Kevin is slaving away in the belly of the crappy sitcom beast, working on an idiotic show that mostly requires him to take his shirt off, though he is capable of more, so much more.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2016
Or having to fend off e-mail from a boss in the Hamptons while the employee is slaving away in a cubicle.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2010
And just when one is slaving one's hardest one has to appear at one's very best!
From Time Magazine Archive
"But, Sue, shall you be content to have Billy slave as he is slaving now," she presently went on, "right on into middle- age?"
From Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris
"My husband is slaving down-town to pay the bills for these togs, but are you not glad that I did not wait till he could afford to dress me like this?"
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
