compare
verb (used with object)
to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences.
am comparing
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present progressiveof compare (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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Let no one say I am comparing him with Shakespeare.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
But I am going too far; I am comparing simplicity with subtlety, the usual with the refined.
From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by Henry James
Rather should you be giving thanks that it is not you I am comparing with Porthos.
From The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
P.S.—Amongst all sorts of odds and ends, with which I am amusing myself, I am comparing the seeds of the variations of plants.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
“But I am comparing Americans with the whole mass of Europeans,” John objected.
From An American Politician by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
