Example sentences for: nowadays

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

  • It seems unlikely that James Dale thus counseled his own Scout troop, though certainly any naughty scoutmaster who nowadays passed on that advice from the founder of scouting would more likely find himself in hot water, rather than cold.

  • One American dictionary, which I cannot identify, apparently defines the British slang term pooftah as a lady's man (possibly a misfire for an effeminate man, a secondary sense nowadays, after a male homosexual).

  • Some scholars nowadays use the term "intellectual" as an honorific, and often as little more.

  • since Tootsie " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Critics also like David Mamet's screenplay for its jabs at the news media, out-of-touch liberals, and "everything that's awful in American life nowadays" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Dissenting, The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin bemoans the film's "sophomoric" humor and its "cozy, video-ready cynicism."

  • To counteract this they had the ingenuity to brighten them up; and nowadays all the buildings are painted in the most unusual, and very attractive, array of pastel colors.


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