- present participle of describe.
describing
Example Sentences
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But he also said he is in disbelief; describing him as “the most honest, responsible, hardworking guy you have ever known,” adding, “I loved him like a brother.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
These included radiocarbon dating, unusual patterns recorded in tree rings, and historical records describing ruptures that broke the ground surface.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
She said employees at Booking.com had not communicated with each other, describing the situation as "carnage".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Greg Bresnitz, who had already been working on automation in the marketing department at the blockchain platform Optimism, was in the audience when a conference keynote speaker started describing the “marketing engineer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
