regain
verb (used with object)
to get again; recover.
am regaining
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present progressiveof regain (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 am regaining control of their physical condition," said Chief Coach Mihaly Igloi, when his boys and girls were settled at last in Melbourne, "but their minds are in Hungary."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I am regaining my old influence over her," thought simple Simon.
From A Heart-Song of To-day by Annie Gregg Savigny
Much exercise in the open air, living much on milk and fruit, have recruited my health, and I am regaining the habit of sleep, which a month of nightly cannonade in Rome had destroyed.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
And now, for the moment, I am regaining another of the joys of youth—that of the sense of perfect freedom.
From The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment by David Grayson
