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Example sentences for "now known"

  • While this must have hampered the presentation of characters like Lady Macbeth, it is now known to have been less of a handicap than was formerly thought.

  • This is now known as the Vercelli Book.

  • The voyagers named it the Angra de Santa Elena, and it may have been the bay which is now known as St. Helen's Bay.

  • The eggs of the last-named penguin have been found on the Ile Aride, which is now known as Crozet Island, and the whole group as the Crozet Islands.

  • Its boat was undergoing repairs on a peninsula near by, now known as Rocky Neck, and the sailors were washing their linen just at the point where the peninsula is united to the mainland.

  • It was rebuilt and fortified by Louis XIII, and is now known as Port Louis.

  • At the setting of the sun, they were near the flat and sandy coast, now known as Wallace's Sands.

  • Swiss lake-dwellings the remains of a small breed, with thin tall legs, and horns like those of a goat, thus differing somewhat from any kind now known.

  • Differences in general appearance and foliage, not more strongly marked than those above indicated, have led good observers to rank as distinct species certain forms which are now known to be mere varieties.

  • At short intervals further additions were made and in 1900 the building, now known as the Engineering Shops, assumed its present form.

  • It has often been said that the snake's rattle is for warning to birds and other animals; but this is now known to be a mistake, for when a snake rattles, it strikes its victim almost at the same time, if it has a chance.

  • The visitors were very friendly, and urged De Vries to sail his vessel up a stream, now known as Big Timber Creek, which, they declared, was a much better place for trading.

  • It was one of the Bahama group, and is now known as Watling Island (British).

  • He crossed the Equator, which for past years had been the limit of knowledge, and, continuing southwards he reached the mouth of the mighty river Congo, now known as the second of all the African rivers for size.

  • Passing Delagoa Bay and Sofala without sighting them, Vasco da Gama at last reached the mouth of a broad river, now known as Quilimane River, but called by the weary mariners the River of Mercy or Good Tokens.

  • Passing the spot where Diego Cam had erected his farthest pillar, Diaz reached a headland, now known as Diaz Point, where he, too, placed a Portuguese pillar that remained unbroken till about a hundred years ago.

  • It was formerly supposed to be an individual fatty acid, but is now known to be simply an intimate mixture of stearic and palmitic acids.

  • A hydrocarbon radical formerly supposed to exist in œnanthic acid, now known to be identical with heptyl.

  • Several of the epidemics of alleged smallpox that have occurred among Indians and other savage tribes are now known to have been only measles.

  • This is now known to be an error, as cultures and examinations made from the blood and various parts of the body have shown the presence of the typhoid bacillus in almost every organ and tissue.

  • It was at one time supposed that typhoid fever was a disease exclusively confined to adult life; but it is now known to occur frequently in children, though often in such a mild and irregular form as to escape recognition.

  • Buddhism is now known to have been the principal source of our legends and parables.

  • Therefore it is now known to be the fact that iron was used by the Egyptians as early as 3500 B.

  • The chief error was in the placing of the Hellenion (the great meeting-place of the Greeks), which is now known to be in quite a different position from that assigned to it by Prof.

  • These people, thus named, had once resided in Nova Scotia and Lower Canada, or Canada East as now known.

  • La Salle was furnished with pilots and requested to drop down to the White Cliffs, now known as Ellis' Cliffs, eighteen miles below Natchez, where a delegation would meet and conduct him to the White Apple village.

  • A sculptured panel on the north-west turret of the Nine Altar Chapel is now known as the #Dun Cow#.

  • Through the brush he espied a white tent on what is now known as Gillam's Island, a fortress half built, and a ship at anchor.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "now known" 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:
    added with; afterwards became; boil three; call from; call her; cutting tool; fatal blow; formerly written; hard snow; inquire after; manufacturing town; many libraries; minimum wage; must say; now and; now began; now called; now known; now that; now they; now you; nowhere else; our ships; round them; similar form; young minister