sending

present participle of send

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sending The boys are now competitive dancers, doing jazz, tap and lyrical ballet, and Donoghue keeps in touch with many of the performers, sending them Christmas cards and messaging them on Facebook. Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025 Gilgeous-Alexander then missed a pull-up triple, sending the game to OT. Frank Nunns O'Connell 15 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025 Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025 Maduro, who is accused of stealing last year’s presidential election, responded with his own show of force, sending soldiers to the coastline for defensive exercises. Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025 Creating malware and sending scam emails can land you behind bars, but creating an AI that can do these things isn’t a crime, at least according to federal law. Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025 The Dodgers will start Blake Snell, while the Blue Jays are sending rookie Trey Yesavage to the mound for Game 1 on Friday at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025 The organization was sending former veterans to rescue orphans and help deliver aid, according to its social media posts and coverage of the company in the media. Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025 Must be all the healing energy the world has been sending him. Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sending
Verb
  • The indictment charges Bolton with eight counts of transmitting national defense information and 10 counts of unlawfully retaining such information.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Eduardo Aguilar, who was living in Dallas, is charged with transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Crossbody Bag Make transporting your items and safety a priority with a reliable crossbody bag.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Texas lawmakers rejected both the Smithsonian's cost estimates of transporting Discovery and the museum's legal claim of ownership.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In terms of competition, though, Huawei is the alpha dog in Chinese AI chips, shipping between 300,000 and 400,000 of its Ascend AI chips last year, compared to just north of 10,000 units from Cambricon.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The report said the facility first began trial operations in July, and started shipping products to stores in mid-August.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the wearer walks, these nodes slide up and down, basically transferring the topography of the ground through the shoes to stimulate the foot.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2025
  • OpenAI proposes to become a public benefit corporation (PBC), transferring the nonprofit’s ownership of OpenAI’s technology to the for-profit arm, lifting the profit caps for investors, and doing away with the nonprofit’s oversight.
    Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After dispatching Matt last week, the Ulis took Jason out this week to give themselves the numbers heading towards another tribe swap next week.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This aunt would look into the ball and see the face of some distant relative, and then announce that the family would be having an unexpected visitor, before dispatching someone to the butcher’s to buy the very best pork chops for the occasion.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Sending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sending. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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