devote
verb (used with object)
to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc..
am devoting
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present progressiveof devote (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 am devoting more time to the birdbrains in my comic strip Shoe.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am devoting the most of my leisure hours to reading and improving my mind, some way or other.
From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Young, Duncan McNeill
I am sparing my children these sacrifices; I am devoting myself to them.
From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Bazin, Ren?
"Nay, but, fair Catherine," said the page, "why will you thus damp my ardour, when I am devoting myself, body and soul, to the cause of your mistress?"
From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir
I can't," he replied, "I haven't a line of unsold manuscript anywhere on earth, and just now I am devoting myself to horseback riding in Central Park.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary
