advance
verb (used with object)
to move or bring forward.
am advancing
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present progressiveof advance (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am advancing the Sexual Assault Survivor Rights Act in the US Senate to combat the silence surrounding sexual assault and to empower survivors to be informed, fairly treated participants throughout the criminal justice process.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2016
Would it be nobler of me to give him up before he is really mine, knowing that in this way I am advancing his worldly interests?
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Christine Tucke Curtiss
If I am advancing my reputation in the East I am making it much faster than if I depended upon the local reputation alone.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
I see no reason why, because I am advancing in years, I should become melancholy.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
"Sir, "I have the honour of your Excellency's letter of this day; and have to state, that I am advancing with the squadron to Chazy as fast as the wind and weather will allow.
