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
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 Hentz, Caroline Lee
I am hastening with my whole fleet, etc.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
“I am hastening across the sward,” she announced in cheerfully inane greeting, “what is a sward anyhow, and why isn’t it pronounced the same as sword?”
From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Schwartz, Julia Augusta
“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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
