furnish
verb (used with object)
to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
is furnishing
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present progressiveof furnish (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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With the help of some local businesses, the foundation is furnishing the new homes recently built and purchased by the two families through the foundation’s “Homes for the Holidays” program.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
His return to the club this week is furnishing the material for a live release, “The Seeker.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2011
“For Hedy is furnishing her new home, her real home, with simple pine furniture, chintzes, cottagey rugs.”
From Architectural Digest ● Apr. 1, 2010
The need for world fellowship, bred in terror, is furnishing a binder to hold men together.
From Time Magazine Archive
All small places like Warehold and Barnegat need topics of conversation, and Miss Jane for the moment is furnishing one of them.
From Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith
