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
You know that I am only a poor devil, who has his position to make, but I have the will and some intelligence, and I am advancing.
From Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
I am advancing rapidly; the weather is very cold; the snow is a foot deep.
From The Court of the Empress Josephine by Thomas Sergeant Perry
This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
