require
verb (used with object)
to have need of; need.
am requiring
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present progressiveof require (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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"If you please; it is a simple test I am requiring of you, sir."
From That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green
There is nothing you may wish to learn that he cannot teach you; to me, certainly, he is a perfect mine of learning whenever I am requiring any out-of-the-way information.
From Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by John Benjamin Firth
He laid the foundation of all his after power by doing precisely what I am requiring my own pupils to do,—copying German engravings in facsimile!
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
