bless
verb (used with object)
to consecrate or sanctify by a religious rite; make or pronounce holy.
is blessing
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present progressiveof bless (3rd 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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“How can you accept prayers for the patriarch who is blessing the soldiers trying to kill your son?” said Andreas Loudaros, editor of Orthodoxia.info, an Athens-based website that covers church affairs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
The singer gave the movie is blessing, and his family and management have been involved in the production since, even gifting a previously unheard recording to the soundtrack.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2019
He’s always trying to help everyone, he’s always smiling and happy, and God is blessing him with the things he deserves.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2013
Savs Paul Hines, head of the festival committee: "It's almost as if the Almighty is blessing our efforts to glorify him."
From Time Magazine Archive
He would rather let it be hard for us to live if there is blessing in the hardness, than make it easy for us at the cost of the blessing.
From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
