furnish
verb (used with object)
to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
am furnishing
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present progressiveof furnish (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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Mrs. Lillian Coogan: "Proud mother that I am, I am furnishing newspapers throughout the country with an installment biography of my son, Jackie."
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, no one must know that I am furnishing the money.
From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Elsie Janis
I am simply saying what other people think; I am furnishing clothes for their children, I am putting on exhibition their offspring, and they like to hear it, they like to see it.
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll
Sir,—-You may perhaps have noticed in your editorial readings a series of articles that I am furnishing for the "Era" under the title of "Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly."
From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am furnishing materials for history, not writing it, and my chief duty is to observe accuracy, even at the risk of depreciating the value of the documents I offer.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton
