are refitting
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present progressiveof refit.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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"Hum, say rather that you are refitting your house, and that this is an excuse for buying new furniture, since you are doubtless tired of the old."
From The Regent's Daughter by Dumas père, Alexandre
I shall be very glad to see you while you are refitting, as soon as your leg will permit it, and which, I am happy to hear, is only a sprain.
From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Osler, Edward
We are refitting, shooting, and devouring quantities of excellent mussels; eider ducks are very abundant, but extremely shy.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pavlovna said to him: "I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?"
From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
I am told you are refitting for a trip to west Florida.
From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)