am combating
- present progressive of combat (1st person singular).
Example Sentences
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In the present chapter, therefore, we may confine ourselves chiefly to a consideration of the stories and poems which have fostered the belief I am combating.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
How is it possible to reconcile this short, explicit, and unambiguous provision with the theory I am combating?
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
We read, in the author I am combating, "What shall we say of the fairies, a prodigy so notorious and so common?"
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry
And you may see those very persons, whose opinions I am combating, frequently urging on the young by praises, and frequently checking them by rebukes, though pleasure follows the one, pain the other.
From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard
