- present participle of perform.
performing
Example Sentences
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Yet he is now preparing to do something most actors would find daunting even with perfect recall: performing a much-loved Samuel Beckett play alone on a London stage.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
“But there’s no other L.A. County facility for performing arts that we found in our research that had an EBT program,” Fuentes added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The 29-year-old is performing on the main stage at Reading and Leeds Festival this year, but last year she made her debut at Glastonbury Festival through the BBC Introducing stage.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Boé chimpanzees performing the behavior are unhabituated; they are not used to humans, meaning that we cannot observe individual chimpanzees on foot because they will run away.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
In Auburn’s circles, spirits began performing all kinds of miracles, from flipping hats and playing the harp to suggesting appropriate medicines for sick relatives.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
