purchase
verb (used with object)
to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
am purchasing
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present progressiveof purchase (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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The remainder are usually declined for one of three reasons; either, They are not suited to the policy and the requirements of the publishing house, or the periodicals, for which I am purchasing.
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Flora Klickmann
Take the money and do not think I am purchasing you; it shall only be an earnest of your future.
From Mohammed Ali and His House by Mrs. Chapman Coleman
From the apparel I am purchasing you'd think I was wardrobe mistress for a number two 'Talk of New York' company.
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by Kenneth McGaffey
I am purchasing an estate, intending to farm it myself.
From Speculations from Political Economy by C. B. Clarke
