How to Use the present in a Sentence

the present

noun

• 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
• The film is set in the present, taking place around 2016.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 July 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
• Each scene is golden in the present day or crisply black and white in flashback scenes.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
• Instead, Frances is a new invention, sailing in on the breeze from the past to the present.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 28 June 2024
• The following chart shows the national debt from 1970 to the present day.
  — Mike Patton, Forbes, 16 Aug. 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
• With fall just around the corner, there’s no time like the present to add a few new easy-to-wear items to your closet.
  — Nina Derwin, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
• 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
• No matter how hard his friends pulled, Jim slowly slipped away from the present.
  — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• But this raft of evidence not only stretched back a long way but was very much of the present.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
• This reading is in turn used to determine the present color of the leaf, which is an indicator of plant health (and of season).
  — New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024