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
• Cantor: The witch hunts of the past are echoing in the present.
  — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• And the past always takes place before the present, which always takes place before the future.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Khan: When Jamie’s mom is murdered in the present, at the top of our movie, that is the inciting incident for her.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2023
• This play seems to be taking place in the present tense, but also in retrospect, through Sofi’s point of view.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• The conversation then shifted to the present, and the Paris shows Chioma and Fran had attended thus far.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 29 Feb. 2024
• All movies reach into the past — of their makers or the medium itself — to be legible in the present.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024