Examples of now and then in a Sentence
we do go to the library now and then, but not as often as we should
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Dylan Cease doesn’t, either, but every now and then something breaks through.
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
Our goal was just to make everything epic and then slow it down and surprise the audience every now and then with something tender and sweet.
—Max Gao, IndieWire, 20 June 2025
But a complaint that gets tossed into Honk’s electronic mailbag every now and then is about the lane markings themselves on various highways.
—Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
But every now and then, one of those drunken fireflies wiggles back over toward the plate, the strike zone, dodging a hitter’s swing and landing safely, right where it was meant to be.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 19 June 2025
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
Our goal was just to make everything epic and then slow it down and surprise the audience every now and then with something tender and sweet.
—Max Gao, IndieWire, 20 June 2025
But a complaint that gets tossed into Honk’s electronic mailbag every now and then is about the lane markings themselves on various highways.
—Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
But every now and then, one of those drunken fireflies wiggles back over toward the plate, the strike zone, dodging a hitter’s swing and landing safely, right where it was meant to be.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 19 June 2025
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“Now and then.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/now%20and%20then. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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