Progressing
[prəɡ'resɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Progress
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Examples
- This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an exceptional word now and again, he found it very plain sailing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- From the 23d of May the work of fortifying and pushing forward our position nearer to the enemy had been steadily progressing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That matter of Herbert's was still progressing, and everything with me was as I have brought it down to the close of the last preceding chapter. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How are the rest of your affairs progressing, apart from the business? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My investigation seemed to be progressing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The world, it is evident, was not progressing during these two centuries of Roman prosperity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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