oblige
verb (used with object)
to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
is obliging
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present progressiveof oblige (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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“Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan is obliging with “1883,” described as a retelling of Western expansion though the impoverished family’s journey toward a new chapter in pre-statehood Montana.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
“It is obliging us to do something I don’t want to do. I prefer to say ‘No’ and keep my freedom.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Happily, the government is obliging his desire for taking the positives.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2020
The wheel may be unbroken, but for Game of Thrones, if your noblesse is obliging enough, it works.
From Slate ● May 21, 2019
A lake, springing into a waggon and having wheels totter and having all the water suffer, this is obliging.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
