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Example sentences for "him now"

  • There was probably some understanding between them--not that anything of the kind mattered to him now.

  • How do I know what's happening to him now?

  • Look at him now--he's on the quarterdeck and will be down in the cabins before you can say Jack Robinson.

  • No; Amabel might laugh at him, or he might fancy she did, while struggling in the midst of rapidly engulfing waters, but would she laugh at him now?

  • If she were to go to him now at once and say no more than these few words, "What is the truth of the story?

  • And then there's this disgraceful affair of the bailiff--but I can't speak of him now.

  • Bathsheba knew more of him now; he had entirely bared his heart before her, even until he had almost worn in her eyes the sorry look of a grand bird without the feathers that make it grand.

  • The whole sex was interesting to him now, for the sake of Miss Gwilt.

  • There was no looking at him now, and guessing what he might once have been.

  • The eyes of the beautiful wife were not confusing him now.

  • Here was some one coming to him now, some one who, as the evening light fell about the land, dark with his cloak to his face, came softly upon the house and knocked at the door.

  • Every part of him now seemed to be at war with every other part.

  • The fact that he had left all these months without going to see the old man rose before him now like an accusing hand.

  • He had determined, when the sharpest shock of Stephen's death had passed, and he was able to think of other things, that the supremely important thing for him now to do was to get back to his old relations with Clare.

  • One would never guess it to look at him now.

  • He wondered if she ever thought of him now, if she remembered their adventure at High Point light.

  • And what was to become of him now, after he reached his destination?

  • Gania was evidently much alarmed at the idea that the prince would not consent to take his note, and he looked at him now with an expression of absolute entreaty.

  • You are as sure of him now as if you had the money in your pocket.

  • I don't ever talk to him now, but I hold him in cheek, safe enough.

  • THAT woman is doing it all for him, I know she is, to show she can make a fool of him now just as she did when he used to give her pearls.

  • Varia, who used to be always correcting him, never spoke to him now on the subject of his frequent absences, and the whole household was surprised to see Gania, in spite of his depression, on quite friendly terms with his brother.

  • And sleep came to him now, filled with dreams in which he lived with Josephine always at his side, laughing and singing with him, and giving him her lips to kiss in their joyous paradise.

  • She looked at him now, her breast throbbing, almost a sob in her quivering voice, defying him to deny the truth of her words.

  • He caught her to him now, so close that his breath swept her face.

  • But it was clear to him now, and the look that came into his own face told her that he had made the discovery.

  • If one could take any help to him now--one must!

  • She alluded to him now that he was gone as her 'poor, dear, irreverend brother.

  • It seemed to him now that he had at the time discerned a certain fateful quality in the apparition.

  • Not much remained to him now of the classifications and phraseology which he had gone to the trouble of memorizing, in that far-off time, but he still looked at buildings with a kind of professional consciousness.

  • The conversation interested him not at all; if he had ever known the Southern lines apart, they were all one to him now.

  • The details of the episode came back to him now.

  • He had never a bitter thought in his mind about any person or thing, nor did he dream of bemoaning the cruel fate which left him now at his death, as at his birth, deserted.

  • Mrs. Beale glanced at him now affectionately.

  • She could look at him now, and it surprised her to find that he was not in appearance the monster she had been picturing him--no more a monster, indeed, than he had seemed before she knew of his past.

  • What was there left to him now in the world?

  • She had a higher opinion of him now,--a much higher opinion, even though he could never be more to her than a friend.

  • They had never spoken since, though they had often seen each other, and Dale was not at all disposed to speak to him now.

  • Some morsel of that revenge came to him now.

  • It seemed to him now that he had known her for a long time, that she had been a part of him always, and that it was her spirit that he had been groping and searching for, and could never find.

  • She tried to laugh at him now, and drew her hand away.

  • They were probably looking down upon him now, and in the gladness of the moment Philip laughed up at the bare rocks and waved his cap above his head as a signal of his acceptance of the strange invitation he had received.

  • He would have followed, but Miss Brokaw was coming to him now, her hand held out to him, and a step behind were Brokaw and the factor.

  • His pennies were precious to him now, and he saved them jealously, wondering scornfully sometimes how he could ever have demeaned himself so far as to find excitement in the liquor or the company of the 'Cow.

  • Very few people go to him now; they want younger men.

  • The impression was strong on him now--but it was only momentary.

  • It seemed to him now that he had judged her harshly in the first months of their marriage.

  • They woke no echo in him now; but he saw that she could still set them ringing through the sensibilities of her hearers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "him 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:
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