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Example sentences for "being now"

  • Improved prisons would cost more than all that is being now spent on the people's education, and would lay a still heavier burden on the people.

  • On the way he came to spend a few days with his aunts, being now a very different young man from the one who had spent the summer with them three years before.

  • Still, being now in Petersburg, he considered it his duty to do all he had intended, and he resolved next day, after consulting Bogotyreff, to act on his advice and see the person on whom the case of the sectarians depended.

  • This was the impediment that lay in the way of this his entire glorious progress, and was what hindered Antigonus from being now conquered, who was already disposed to forsake the city.

  • Having set myself aright, and being in good spirits, I made boldly across the valley (where the snow was furrowed hard), being now afraid of nobody.

  • I was waiting very carelessly, being now a little desperate, at the entrance to the glen, instead of watching through my sight-hole, as the proper practice was.

  • Neither in truth did I try to stop it, being now so desperate, between the fear and the wretchedness; till I caught a glimpse of the little maid, whose beauty and whose kindliness had made me yearn to be with her.

  • And although they were not all good people, yet they all did look there, she shone so with intelligence, being now quite on her mettle.

  • Zoe, being now at home, and queen, wore a new and pretty deportment.

  • Zoe, being now cool, fell into a state of compunction and dismay.

  • I went and Sounded and buoy'd the Bar, being now ready to put to sea the first opportunity.

  • Being now clear of the Islands we steer'd a West course all night until 6 a.

  • Fishing-nets are very abundant in both cities, often quite entire; and their number at Pompeii is the more interesting from the sea being now, as we stated, a mile distant.

  • This is the case at present; one of the branches, the western, being now called Le Petit Rhone, which is again subdivided before entering the Mediterranean.

  • Being now settled in the Tower, the Council came thither to examine him, but found him always the same man, both constant in his faith and function, and faithful to his friends.

  • Being now worthy of the Inner Court, I was told-off to sleep in the spare bed in Moriarty's room, and to sit at meat with the narangies, where we were waited on by a menial.

  • Being now in the House of Taurus, she had overborne the benignant sway of Aldebaran, and was pressing hard on Castor and Pollux (in the House of Gemini).

  • But the pipe, being now master of the position, gently seduced my mind to a wider consideration, merely using the swagman as a convenient spring-board for its flight into regions of the Larger Morality.

  • Jacob of old, was gathered to his people in a good old age, being now upwards of seventy-two years.

  • To add to our discomfort, the sun, being now high, shone with prodigious heat upon us, and parched us with thirst.

  • He was freed now, as he wrote to his friend Lange, by the authority of the bull, from the commands of his Order and of the Pope, being now an excommunicated man.

  • To his wife he wrote from Tambach, telling her that she need not accept the Elector's offer to drive her to him, it being now unnecessary.

  • At this time he was particularly anxious to complete his translation of the Bible, being now hard at work with the books of the Prophets.

  • When the ceremony was over, his brethren congratulated him on being now like an innocent child fresh from the baptism.

  • All preparations against the Dutch; and the Duke of Yorke fitting himself with all speed, to go to the fleete which is hastening for him; being now resolved to go in the Charles.

  • The Archbishop of Canterbury speaks very little, nor do much, being now come to the highest pitch that he can expect.

  • This being my solemn feast for my cutting of the stone, it being now, blessed be God!

  • My wife tells me the sad news of my Lady Castlemayne's being now become so decayed, that one would not know her; at least far from a beauty, which I am sorry for.

  • Minnes by coach, and so to my office a while, and home to supper and bed, being now in constant pain in my back, but whether it be only wind or what it is the Lord knows, but I fear the worst.

  • For this purpose, being now a widower, he made his addresses to Emma, sister to Richard II.

  • The enemy, in by no means equal spirits, being now in trepidation, despatch messengers in every direction to call back the plundering parties.

  • News then came from Quintius that he, being now victorious, was about to attack the enemy's camp; that he was unwilling to break into it before he learned that they were beaten in the left wing also.

  • Being now in a rainy climate, which we had been long disused to, we found it necessary to caulk the sides of the Centurion, to prevent the rain-water from running into her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being now" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and fro; being acted; being answered; being bent; being boiled; being convinced; being deprived; being first; being invisible; being invited; being made; being married; being mentioned; being modernized; being near; being nearly; being necessary; being ordained; being perceived; being present; being slain; being supposed; being thus; being useful; being very; eighths inch