PRESENT in a Sentence
Learn PRESENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for PRESENT, such as:
1. The future disturbing our present.
2. Allow me to present my former teacher to you.
3. Perhaps she'll reach the present, if she skips.
4. A film fell over her eyes, shutting off the present.
5. The present law has failed to achieve its objectives.
2. Allow me to present my former teacher to you.
3. Perhaps she'll reach the present, if she skips.
4. A film fell over her eyes, shutting off the present.
5. The present law has failed to achieve its objectives.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PRESENT
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present
v. hand over formally
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2 At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3 It told me that Drebber had already applied for the protection of the law against an old rival in love, named Jefferson Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe.
4 All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.
5 He had, he said, been present during Boxer's last hours.
6 There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.
7 In a moment, he said, he would ask the present company to drink a toast.
8 The future disturbing our present.
9 The future shadowed their present, like the sun coming through the many-veined transparent vine leaf; a criss-cross of lines making no pattern.
10 Perhaps she'll reach the present, if she skips.
11 It was the primeval voice sounding loud in the ear of the present moment.
12 A film fell over her eyes, shutting off the present.
13 The hands of the clock had stopped at the present moment.
14 He assures them that their last sample is impure and quite useless for his present purpose.
15 He is gone away, and there is no present expectation of his return.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines.
2 According to the witness's testimony, you were present when the crime was committed.
3 The present law has failed to achieve its objectives.
4 The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future.
5 I can testify to the foregoing since I was actually present when it happened.
6 The present administration has demonstrated little regard for environmental issues.
7 He warned that correcting the mistakes of the present administration would not be easy.
8 Allow me to present my former teacher to you.
9 Analysis showed that water was present in the mixture.
10 Analysis showed that cocaine was present in the mixture.
11 He gave a brief analysis of the present economic situation.
12 Analysis showed that traces of arsenic were present in the body.
13 The article gives us a real insight into the causes of the present economic crisis.
14 Seize the present day, trusting the morrow as little as may be.
15 Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.