How to Use the present in a Sentence

the present

noun
Definition of the presentnext
  • The setting is an opaque time of the present and the 1970s past.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Now is the time to fixate on the present, not the past.
    — Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
  • As for the present, they weren’t even aligned on chess.
    — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • But there’s no time like the present to prep for the rest of the summer.
    — Kara Peeler, Sunset Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • Cantor: The witch hunts of the past are echoing in the present.
    — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • To make a film that’s completely in the present, not in the past.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • And Just Like That has brought Che’s past into the present.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
  • Is it set in the present, in the future, in Nazi Germany, in space?
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The rapper then asked his son to comment on the present.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But this group is focused on what the present can bring.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The song is a swelling, orchestral ode to the cycles of life and a call to live in the present.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Though set in the present day, the movie is a nod to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
  • On top of this, the NFL has never been more of a passing league than the present day.
    — cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
  • From the 1860s to the present day, Arizona has been home to its fair share of extremists.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • Instead, Frances is a new invention, sailing in on the breeze from the past to the present.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • For the all-star reliever Scott, staying in the present helps ground him to the Marlins.
    — Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 23 July 2024
  • This is also a learning process for Yoga Lin to live in the present.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But more than anything, right now in the present, it’s fired me up about this race and future races.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • We’re used to the idea, from science fiction, that even small alterations to the past can change the present for the worse.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • So why do those worries about the future feel so real in the present?
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The shapes have downsized from the #PutaBibonIt statement necklaces of the past to the daintier pendants of the present.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There is no better time than the present to put yourself out on a limb and pitch your ideas to the right people.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Just take time this month to breathe, relax, and enjoy the present moment.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
  • History is not on his side but the present is a little more on his side.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Stories can be told in the present tense, and then reviewed using past tense forms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Many researchers view the present moment as the start of what’s possible.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
  • This trade underlines how this franchise is locked on the present.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In the present study, the robot achieved crawling speeds of more than 46 body lengths per second on a flat surface.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In the present, the group fought and clawed — albeit in a losing effort — against a scrappy Commodores squad.
    — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The Secret Life of Sunflowers had two storylines, like so many books these days—one in the present, and one in the past.
    — Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2024

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