preach
verb (used with object)
to proclaim or make known by sermon (the gospel, good tidings, etc.).
am preaching
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present progressiveof preach (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’ve been preaching long enough to know that I am preaching to the choir,” Mr. Warnock, the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, said on Sunday at a Black church in Athens.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
You may also wonder if I am preaching to the choir; doesn’t everyone reading this story already appreciate print?
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
Of course, I am preaching to myself as much as I am talking to you, reader.
From Newsweek
I hope the children who may some day read this won't say I am preaching, or make fun of it.
From My New Home by Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie)
It does not imagine that I am preaching a hideous thing from which all men will revolt; it imagines that I am offering them something which they will gladly and readily accept.
From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.
