nurse
noun
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
am nursing
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present progressiveof nurse (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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“When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
From Time ● Aug. 29, 2016
All of this talk that I am nursing an ambition to send in the troops--no.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mamma is ill with neuralgia; I am nursing her, and cannot see you to-day.
From The Argonauts by Jeremiah Curtin
I am nursing you in my arms to wake you, my Roseline, just as one nurses children to put them to sleep.
From The Choice of Life by Georgette Leblanc
"I am nursing during the day in conjunction with the infirmary nurse."
From Molly Brown's Senior Days by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn
