promise
noun
a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one.
am promising
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present progressiveof promise (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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And I am promising never to do anything like that again and asking Please don’t let papou die and swearing It was Clementine’s fault.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
"I had almost vowed not to receive one solitary patient," he laughed, "yet here I am promising to motor thirty miles for the pleasure of calling on one."
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
It is a Rip Van Winkle experiment which I am promising myself.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
From Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw
If you want to know about my qualifications as a lawyer—why, I can refer you to people who can tell you if they think I am promising.'
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
