How to Use now in a Sentence

now

adverb
  • Now's the time for action.
  • He knows now that he was wrong.
  • Police have now identified the man who they believe stole the car.
  • I'm feeling much better now, thank you.
  • I love you now and I'll love you forever.
  • Scientists now believe that the bones belong to a different species of reptile.
  • We were having trouble before, but everything's okay now.
  • The first five episodes of the series are now available.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The Man now, the guy in big boy pants, in the captain’s chair, calling the shots.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • There's still plenty of time to act now and stay ahead of the trend.
    Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The six children who were kept on the farm are now all young adults.
    Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • And now one of the most iconic of all time is set to go up for grabs.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 May 2021
  • Some of that harm is now baked in for centuries to come.
    Author: Eric Roston, Akshat Rathi, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2021
  • And now the shoes have popped up all over the spring runways.
    New York Times, 10 June 2021
  • This now holds most true in the worlds of fashion and beauty.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 4 July 2022
  • But the world is now already two-thirds of the way to breaching the tipping point.
    Punit Renjen For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
  • As of now, the goal would be to film the production in Detroit.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2017
  • And now she was stuck in the Cairo airport with no passport.
    Caitlin Dwyer, Longreads, 29 May 2021
  • People love Kiehl's, and now is your chance to see why, and for way less.
    Amanda Tarlton, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The idea of the script at the time was to do it about something that was happening now.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Those failures are in the past, and is now just so much spilt milk under the bridge.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Gabrielle Union is now the latest celebrity to get in on the miniskirt trend.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
  • The couple, who now live in Hanover, have three children.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 29 Jan. 2022
  • My husband of 1-1/2 years has now joined not one but two bands.
    Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • And in turn, that’s now led to a series of successions.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Both teams have eight shots now in what has become a very back and forth game.
    oregonlive, 13 July 2020
  • Our children are adults now but were quite young at the time of our divorce.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2021
  • But now, as a member of the 40-man roster, Rafaela no longer observes the game as a fan.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • And, of course, our practices are cut down now, one padded practice a week and that kind of thing.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
  • And now the support is coming from the highest office in the land.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2022

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