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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PRESENT
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
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
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.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
4  All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
5  He had, he said, been present during Boxer's last hours.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
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.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
7  In a moment, he said, he would ask the present company to drink a toast.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
8  The future disturbing our present.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
10  Perhaps she'll reach the present, if she skips.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
11  It was the primeval voice sounding loud in the ear of the present moment.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
12  A film fell over her eyes, shutting off the present.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
13  The hands of the clock had stopped at the present moment.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
14  He assures them that their last sample is impure and quite useless for his present purpose.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
15  He is gone away, and there is no present expectation of his return.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
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.