cast
verb (used with object)
to throw or hurl; fling.
am casting
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present progressiveof cast (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 know it may look like I am casting stones while potentially living in a glass house.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2014
“Here I am, casting you out of the Inner City, and I have nothing to help protect you except...”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
I, who am casting all desires in dust, To one desire still cling: I long that joy Of such deliverance fill you as fills me On this first step of the sublime ascent.
From Mr. Faust by Arthur Davison Ficke
I hope I am casting no slur upon the 8th Royal Rifles of Quebec, when I say that I think we were all pretty green in the matter of field experience.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
"I am successful; but it seems to me I am casting away my own soul," she said to herself.
From The Time of Roses by L. T. Meade
