- present participle of describe.
describing
Example Sentences
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She said employees at Booking.com had not communicated with each other, describing the situation as "carnage".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The way he’s describing it is essentially we’re in an emergency situation, we’re in a kind of something that’s similar to a war,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Protecting nature is “a moral issue,” Newsom said, describing a “relationship we have to what’s above us, and … how that connects us to our Creator.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
There’s a lot of argument online on social media about the value—or lack thereof—in describing these machines in anthropomorphic terms.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
He has been seeing Peter for years, and he speaks of his condition not with condescension or detachment but matter-of-factly, as if describing a minor character tic.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
