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

I am advancing rapidly; the weather is very cold; the snow is a foot deep.

From The Court of the Empress Josephine by Perry, Thomas Sergeant

On this account I am advancing but slowly; and, as our resources for correcting this evil are so inadequate, may your Majesty be pleased to declare his pleasure as soon as possible.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

"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.

From Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review by Brenton, E. B.