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Example sentences for "not now"

  • Not now," he replied impatiently; "her mother has just come over and taken her off.

  • Not now," he said impatiently, with that nervous avoidance of the person he loved best.

  • Not now--not now, " protested Will gaily, consumed by an artificial energy.

  • You do not now wish to aid me, or you are afraid!

  • Not now,--when we are so far toward the winning!

  • To what depths of scorn might he not now be fallen in the mind of such a girl as Maren Le Moyne with her calm judgment; how far might he not be from the object of his longing!

  • Not now will we dispute and cavil; not now will we judge harshly of each other.

  • I beg you to believe that I do not now refuse to address you from any disposition to disoblige you, but to the contrary.

  • All from Indiana and Michigan, not now elsewhere, be sent to Anderson at Louisville.

  • With this view, I should prefer to not now write a public letter on the subject.

  • Sometime I will explain, but not now-- not now.

  • He told me something about his proposition, but I thought that perhaps you would not be likely to go--not now, anyway.

  • Some day I'll explain, but not now-- not now!

  • The time is not now as formerly, to conquer the kingdoms of our neighbour princes, and to build up our own greatness upon the loss of our nearest Christian Brother.

  • Grainger afterwards altered the passage in question, the remarks in the text do not now apply to the printed poem.

  • If you have been scrupulous, do not now be rash.

  • Professor, not now in his deep tones, but in his highest and most excited key, "Femme!

  • I could not mention a thing of which I never thought, and which I do not now acknowledge.

  • Not now; this is much too serious, if you have been led to believe that his attentions are not as I supposed, because you are the only girl about here whom he thinks worthy of his notice.

  • Not now, master,' she said, not thinking his pugnacity in need of such respectable examples.

  • The original is not now extant; but it was translated in the time of the Apostles into Greek, that version was of equal authority.

  • And the son said to him: Father: I have sinned against heaven and before thee I am not now worthy to be called thy son.

  • And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

  • And Jonathan said to his company: Let us arise, and fight against our enemies: for it is not now as yesterday, and the day before.

  • When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

  • Besides, was he not now in a low physical condition, and therefore the less likely to judge truly with regard to affairs of active outer life?

  • Let the truth be victorious, if not now, yet when it shall please thee; and oh!

  • We used to worship the golden calves, but we do not now.

  • There is not now an enlightened minister in the world who will seriously contend that Sampson's strength was in his hair, or that the necromancers of Egypt could turn water into blood, and pieces of wood into serpents.

  • There is not now an enlightened minister in the world who will seriously contend that Samson's strength was in his hair, or that the necromancers of Egypt could turn water into blood, and pieces of wood into serpents.

  • She was no longer alone--no longer unknown--not now unappreciated in that respect in which hitherto she felt her great denial.

  • It is not now whether I wish to ride with you or not.

  • No, not now; you certainly can't do it now.

  • What first gave rise to the connexion it is not now easy to say; but Charley had found it, and had fostered it into a close alliance, which greatly exceeded any amount of intimacy which existed previously to his day.

  • Was he not now here in Tavistock on a mission which proved that he was no mere clerk?

  • I do not now want to blame anyone but myself.

  • I am not now going to argue whether the fault has been most mine or yours,' continued Alaric.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not 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:
    each holding; not all; not believe; not dead; not exactly; not good; not have; not knowing; not long; not mean; not mentioned; not merely; not mistaken; not only; not right; not speak; not that; not very; not well; note here; nothing had; nothing left; nothing remarkable; nothing will; present the; shall grow