relate
verb (used with object)
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
am relating
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present progressiveof relate (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 had been living in the count's hotel a year; Sophy had returned to my father's house, where she did not remain long; but it is not her history that I am relating.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
I am relating these things exactly as they occurred.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce
It was for myself I should have felt that indignation I knew well, but I am relating what occurred, and--well, maybe I paid for the offence heavily enough.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Not that I have not seen and plainly seen all that I am relating; but measuring has nothing to do with the case.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
For these reasons I am relating some of the experiences I have had in the last thirty-two years in raising nut trees in Wisconsin.
From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Carl Weschcke
