Example sentences for: now

How can you use “now” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Elliot Goldenthal, the best film composer now working, has written typically imaginative music, rich in jagged harmony and deft scoring.

  • First, he is typically hailed (or, rarely now, condemned) as a revolutionary who emboldened postwar parents to rebel against the stern behaviorist style that had prevailed in the 1920s and 1930s.

  • Work now began on a new memorandum that would give the tribals more latitude.

  • For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease , and mongolism has become Down syndrome ; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick . All this name changing is mere logomancy which neither changes the fact that there is something wrong with the afflicted nor, in the long run, our attitudes towards them.

  • Even cities such as Las Vegas and Tucson, once famed for their pure desert air, are now corrupted by trees and grass imported as part of so-called "civic improvement" projects.


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