- present participle of protest.
protesting
Example Sentences
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"Protesting won't help because the country is already in a difficult position," Silva told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
Protesting restaurant workers say they are due thousands in unpaid wages after Otium, the acclaimed restaurant opened as part of the Broad museum complex, shuttered this month.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
“I don’t wish anything mean, but disagreeing with someone is not mean. Protesting something in civil language is not mean,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
Protesting farmers breached college gates as First Minister Mark Drakeford arrived to open an engineering centre in Rhyl.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024
Protesting a bill is five-and-twenty shillings; noting, half-a-guinea; every letter demanding payment of account, if under twenty pounds, half-a-guinea; above twenty and under a hundred pounds, one guinea; above a hundred, two guineas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various