Large pears are nowadays produced in Shan-tung and Manchuria, but they are rather tasteless and coarse.
Mr. Blyth appears to consider that the only whale met with nowadays in the Indian Sea north of the line is a great Rorqual or Balaenoptera, to which he gives the specific name of Indica.
Nowadays air travel is not only a possibility but an accomplished fact, and it is hard to realise that it has come about during the last twenty years, and that before then practical flying machines were unknown.
No, the men nowadays have cottage pudding, tapioca pudding, ice cream, if you please.
This form of gambling may exist on some ships but if what the officers of the Louisiana say is true it is rarely nowadays that it is practised in the navy.
Nowadays the recoil is taken up hydraulically, and the gun is shot back into place with springs.
Side by side with this came a great increase of wealth and leisure in England, and there sprang up that astonishing and disproportionate interest in athletic matters, which is nowadays a real problem for all sensible men.
The pleasure for which people spend money nowadays has to have a stirring, exciting, physical element in it to be acceptable.
But what one seems to miss nowadays is the presence of a writer of superlative lucidity and humanity, for whose books one waits with avidity, and orders them beforehand, as soon as they are announced.
Nowadays the parable of the Pharisee and the publican is reversed.
Nowadays the women take part in all kinds of work," Ellen urged.
Nowadays on Sunday mornings, Saint Peter's rector had no monopoly of surplices.
Nowadays poetry or literature is called into requisition.
She went upstairs and closed the door, and sat down before her work-table, where her lamp always stood nowadays filled and trimmed, with a box of matches by its side.
The sweat bath is taken in a small hemispherical wigwam, like the regular abode, but entirely covered with mats or nowadays with canvas.
Nowadays white men’s colors are used and clan marks painted on each end.
The participants in the dream dance usually dress in all of their native finery and nowadays wear many ornaments that are not of Ojibwe origin.
We think we are serious nowadays but I don't believe there are many fellows who think as seriously as that about their life work," observed Roger.
And I tell you the girls nowadays have plenty of it," asserted Roger.
That point seems to be forgotten nowadays when grandmothers and mothers and daughters all wear the same ready-made dresses.
I shan't make any beef tea unless they ask for it especially, because the doctors say nowadays that there isn't much nourishment in it, it's just stimulating.
I guess girls nowadays are different from girls in your day, Grandfather," said Roger wisely.
The pit method occupies any time from one to fifteen months, although nowadays very few hides are left in the tan pits for a year.
For the first time since he had arrived at the age of reflection, he felt his heart vaguely contracted by a sense of his baseness, and of that which we nowadays call abasement.
Nowadays England, whose Loyola is named Wesley, casts down her eyes a little at the remembrance of that past age.
The reverse of a silhouette--a city painted in white on a black horizon, something like what we call nowadays a negative proof.
Any one nowadays wishing to know all about the Comprachicos need only go into Biscaya or Galicia; there were many Basques among them, and it is in those mountains that one hears their history.
They placed gibbets from point to point along the coast, as nowadays they do beacons.
But strangers nowadays only visit Gloucester to see the Cathedral--an expedition well worth the making.
Many people will no doubt be surprised to learn that the nowadays more conspicuous Richmond on the Thames took its name while a hamlet from the Yorkshire town.
Nowadays so thinly peopled, in the time of the Tudors and the early Stuarts they contained more of these wild and lawless people than the country could legitimately support.
Enthusiasts may be heard anon chanting its praises (theoretically) even as a region of permanent abode, but there is not a little posing nowadays in such matters.
The reason why knocking-up is so widespread nowadays is this: people soon get so used to the alarum-clock that it fails to awake them, or if it awake them, they are at times so sleepy that they drop off again before the alarum runs out.
Nowadays long peals are only considered as feats when the same men--only one man to each bell--ring throughout the peal.
But nowadays one must have a natural reason for every deflection in a path; and an obstacle is introduced only to be avoided.
It is the one Great Man or the one Great Woman that enables us nowadays to realise his or her period, and our Castle has unhappily no ghost with a name, and one ghost with a name is more than an armed host of nonentities.
A "tied house" really means nowadays one that is tied down to the resolution that the best traditions of the palace shall be maintained.
But if people nowadays do not wish their gardens to reflect the tastes of their ancestors for the classical tradition, they will be very foolish if they do not adopt something better--when they find it.
The inconsistency of such a view is seen when we consider that in the cities at least an American father (let alone a foreign-born father) is rarely found nowadays objecting to his own girls going out to work for wages.
But with what we know nowadays there should be no need for any such unsatisfactory alternative.
The kangaroo and wallaby provide nowadays a delicious soup (made from the tails of the animals), but the flesh of their bodies is tough and dark and rank.
Nowadays the whole area on which a house is to be raised is covered with cement or with asphalt, and care taken that no timber joists are allowed to touch the earth and thus give entry to the termites.
There is nowadays rather a tendency in civilized countries to bring children up too softly, to guard them too much against the little roughnesses of life.
It is often pretended nowadays that more merit accrues to the pursuit of this form of anthropological science than to the comparative method.
Nowadays there are no lanterns, no torches, worthy the name.
Nowadays the devil is raised as easily, but conducts himself with greater propriety, as becomes the devil of the nineteenth century.
It's kind of Joe to put it in a nutshell, necessary nowadays that we're all hard at it having revelations of our own.
But the idea nowadays is to rush everything just to get finished with it, and then to play cards or football, and get drunk till the legs don't know whether it's land or water they're standing on!
This theory, which even in this mild form would have horrified the ancients, is very prevalent nowadays in legal circles.
The truth of my contention is proved by the fact that nowadays all our laws are emergency laws, a thing that no law should ever be.
Dread of sin's consequences and a desire to escape these is no unworthy motive, however some superfine moralists nowadays may call it so.
Geologists nowadays distrust, for the most part, theories which have to invoke great forces in order to mould the face of a country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nowadays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
