- present participle of kick.
kicking
Example Sentences
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“Lots of people say, ‘They’ll have to take me out of my home kicking and screaming,’” Loverde said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
As his youth coach back home in Bryne once put it: “We don’t rate human worth based on whether you are good or bad at kicking a ball.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
As Dan Kois illustrates in this ode to kicking back with friends, spending unstructured time together is a blessedly simple cure to the ills of modern life.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
Although teachers salaries have been the lowest among K-12 school systems in the county, significant recent raises are kicking in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Strangely, as noisy and as powerful as the beast of a machine was—it dug an eight-inch-by-four-foot-deep hole in virtually no time at all, kicking my tail all the time—it seemed to be breaking down.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
