is warding
- present progressive of ward (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Because Mr. Suleman owns no shares of Citadel — his holdings consist solely of options — some of the company’s owners suspect that he is warding off an attractive acquirer to keep his job.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2011
Vienna-born Dr. Raab could not care less how he looks so long as he is warding off what he calls "loafer's heart."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Back on the arm of her longtime beau Mikhail Baryshnikov, 34, Lange finds that her most challenging current role is warding off rumors that she has become a temperamental star.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And Lamont, with his half-unconscious charge, is hauled to the bank, he gripping with death-like force the end of the fir-pole, under the impression that he is warding off a hostile spear from his heart.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram
Here a sturdy Athenian is dragging her from her seat, while another Amazon is warding off a blow, and preparing to strike one at the same time, in the right corner.
From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard