command
verb (used with object)
to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order.
am commanding
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present progressiveof command (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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Question: "Do they know that I am commanding this expedition?"
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
I am only a cadet, yet I am commanding officer.”
From Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat
No expostulation, Adair; remember, I am commanding officer.
From The Three Midshipmen by Victor Prout
I am commanding officer, adjutant, officer on duty, and all the rest since we left the main body.
From In Flanders Fields and Other Poems by Sir Andrew Macphail
I am commanding men, not fools or children—isn’t it so?”
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
