How to Use in progress in a Sentence

in progress

phrase
  • But this exam is still in progress, and history is doing the grading.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The Snakeman™ has spent the ensuing decades on a naming spree that is very much still in progress.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The state department of health has been notified, and contact tracing is in progress.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • This is one of the largest numbers of FIU construction projects in progress at one time.
    — Florida International University, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • The future of this year’s report, which is already in progress, remains uncertain.
    — Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • All of this makes the album feel more like a mixtape in progress, scraped together from features cut from other people’s projects.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
  • Hundreds more homes are coming to a west Fort Worth development that has been in progress for a decade.
    — Emily Holshouser july 23, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
  • Deputies later received a report of a burglary in progress on Mackinaw Way.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • The same anomaly, combined with the larger context of a person's or entity's behavior over time, may reveal an attack in progress.
    — Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • About 103 goals outlined in the plan are in progress, the assistant village administrator said.
    — Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • With one notable exception, the murders are never depicted in progress; they’re revealed to us in the past tense, as seasonal problems waiting to be solved.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • Peterson's attorneys argued that Laci could have interrupted the robbery in progress and was then abducted and killed by the burglars.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
  • Crowdfunding campaign always carry and element of risk, but the campaign page shows pre-production testing in progress and a working prototype in action.
    — New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But the threat of a partial collapse Tuesday by one such conversion in progress highlighted the significant challenges of those construction projects.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
  • China’s foreign ministry released a position paper while the case was in progress—which read remarkably like a legal brief—that the arbitrators considered as well.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • Days before Christmas in 2024 at an Elk Grove shopping center, police captured a retail theft in progress from the air.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The planet appears to have carved a visible gap inside the protoplanetary disk, giving astronomers one of the clearest views yet of planetary formation in progress.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Saturday officers responded to a report of a fight in progress at a business in the 300 block of Winton Avenue.
    — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Assuming there aren’t any active disputes or audits in progress, the following paperwork can generally be discarded after a decade.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 30 June 2026
  • Roy declined to disclose if a tentative agreement was reached on the technology proposal because labor negotiations are in progress.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
  • Worse, because the attacker now has data on email threads or company projects in progress, the phishing attack is even harder for a busy staffer (or executive) to flag as suspicious while scanning their inbox.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
  • From Anne Hathaway to Robert De Niro, these stars unexpectedly parted ways with productions already in progress.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • One of the adults, later identified as Safrans, was taken to a hospital while CPR was in progress, according to Metro Fire.
    — Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The round of 32 is in progress, with several teams already moving on the round of 16, including tournament co-hosts Canada and Mexico.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Sprouts has opened several new stores in Florida this year, in Orlando, Lecanto, Naples, and Daytona Beach, with more in progress.
    — C. A. Bridges, Florida Times-Union, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Error correction also requires that the hardware support measurements while a calculation is in progress, which a number of other technologies have already demonstrated.
    — ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The talks have been in progress for more than a year, as CNBC previously reported, but nothing official has been decided and the specifics are still subject to change.
    — Dan Mangan,luke Fountain,kevin Breuninger,garrett Downs,ashley Capoot,justin Papp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • Officers responding to a 911 call about an assault in progress found the 44-year-old victim with a gunshot wound to the head and a 39-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg.
    — Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • There is one data center in progress but not yet operational in Douglas County from Microsoft, expanding their presence in Georgia.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Police responding to an assault in progress found Crisaine Dockery unconscious on the Belt Parkway at Farmers Blvd.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026

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