hasten
verb (used without object)
am hastening
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present progressiveof hasten (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 hastening to let you know that the experiments on the production of high speed protons have been successful beyond our expectations,” Lawrence wrote to Dr. Frederick Gardner Cottrell on July 17.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
“I am hastening for a stretcher on which to carry the captain home, though I fear much it will be but his lifeless body.”
From The Boy who sailed with Blake by William Henry Giles Kingston
Perhaps I may see you at my cousin Watson's before I depart whither I am hastening.'
From The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Andrew Lang
I am hastening to the close of this despatch, and to take leave of this place.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
From the grave, whither I am hastening, my voice shall speak; for the time may come, when a knowledge of your parentage will be indispensable, and concealment be considered a crime.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
