Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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"Fighting on red-hot flags is what I'm used to at home," said Jack, "and your dirty feet will be sinking in them and my feet will be rising."
From The Celtic Twilight by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
“If we don’t look sharp, the brig will be sinking under us!”
From Sunshine Bill by William Henry Giles Kingston
—But the Queen of Night will be sinking soon, Then will you, like two breaking waves, Sink softly to your coral caves, Or, noiseless as the falling dew, Melt into Heaven's delicious blue.
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson
