am fasting
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present progressiveof fast (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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If one believer insult another, the latter should repeat "I am fasting" three times before venturing himself to reply.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The trap answered, 'I am fasting and praying.'
From Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
When I am fasting I do the most talking about how busy I am.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
You say the shopman piles a heap, While I perhaps am fasting; And bless your wits, it haunts him in sleep, His tin-kettle chance of lasting!
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
I am fasting in the hope that you may be my husband in my next birth, too.
From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Arthur William Ryder