confess
verb (used with object)
to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.
are confessing
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present progressiveof confess.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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In a scene where people are confessing things that make them sad, Palmer bursts out: "Why did 'N Sync have to break up?"
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2011
But on Capitol Hill these days, lawmakers are confessing bafflement in the face of the massive and growing farm-subsidy scandal.
From Time Magazine Archive
But what care we for the prologue when the first scene is on and Violante and Leonora are confessing their respective love affairs, as women always do—on the stage.
From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins
If you let these irritating outside influences get the better of you, you are confessing your inferiority to them, by permitting them to dominate you.
From The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities by William George Jordan
"Madame, you are confessing you paid some attention to me."
From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas père
