improve
verb (used with object)
to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition.
am improving
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present progressiveof improve (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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“But as time goes on, I could see I am improving personally.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
I am concentrating very hard on my job and of course I naturally hope I am improving because I am gaining experience all the time and it would be odd if I was not.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2015
"I just want to go out there and show that I am improving every week."
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2012
However, not to be too lugubrious, I am improving; that is, the paroxysms of this trouble are less severe, though I am far from being relieved of the burden.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
"I am improving my position," he soliloquised; "if I have not precisely inherited the mantle of Victor Hugo, I have, at any rate, hired the dress-suit of the Comte de St.-Nom-la-Bretèche-Forêt-de- Marly!"
From A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick
