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
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
In these Notes I am furnishing a key to the persons referred to in the article.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
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
My aunt offers one of her farms, and I am furnishing the necessary capital to establish him, which, taken together, will be Aniela's dowry.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
