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Example sentences for "this present"

  • That, if we follow the interests of this present world, we cannot escape the punishment of the other.

  • Because the righteous liveth in this present world; but his expectation is fixed upon the other.

  • In whom also I rejoice that I have been thought worthy by this present epistle to converse, and joy together with you; that with respect to the other life, ye love nothing but God only.

  • I looked forward to this present meeting!

  • But herein do I comfort myself, that in the other world I shall be so, yea and greater too than at this present I dare wish.

  • The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author THE THIRD BOOK.

  • But there is somewhat else I desire not to expound at this present, seeing that the time is not favourable for interpretation.

  • Tis he who speaketh with me at this present," said the boy.

  • But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.

  • As at this present it hath been done, that the rite of the sacrifice might be accomplished.

  • To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.

  • And the king appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this present.

  • That mouth, From which thou hearest it at this present moment, Doth warrant thee that it is no priest's legend.

  • Tis this for which the court can ne'er forgive me, Which drives me to this present step: and since Our interests so run in one direction, E'en let us have a thorough confidence Each in the other.

  • Even from my childhood to this present hour, Think what the duke has done for me, how loved me And think, too, how my father has repaid him.

  • Spare your laments Till he need sympathy; for at this present He is still mighty, and still formidable.

  • True, in this present moment I appear Fallen low indeed; but I shall rise again.

  • Yes; Greatheart is true to his great name in his whole portrait of Madam Bubble also, and nowhere more true than in this present feature.

  • We all turn back from faith and from duty and from privilege through our fear of men, or through our corrupt love of ourselves, or through our coarse-minded love of this present world.

  • And on turning up the Sixth Part of the New English Dictionary, there, to be sure, was the old word standing in this present setting.

  • This is particularly in evidence in this present age.

  • It dates--so much of this present Utopia of ours dates.

  • For myne host Milo enforced me to assure him, and compelled me by the feast of this present day, that I should not depart from his company, wherefore I pray you to excuse, and to defer my promise to another time.

  • I suppose I have been the flower In setting forth thy laws and power Without any delay: By the mass, if I had not been, Thou haddest not been worth a Flander's pin At this present day.

  • Sir, I have fulfilled your intent, And have brought you in this present, That you have sent me for.

  • All praise be given to that Lord of might, Which hath appointed you hither at this present hour; For I trust you will so instruct youth aright, That he shall live according to God's pleasure.

  • It is to be considered that of the Bona Speranza no word nor knowledge was had at this present day, nor yet of the arriual of the ships or goods from Scotland.

  • At this present I have no more to say; His sanam mentem Democritus, I can but wish myself and them a good physician, and all of us a better mind.

  • Esdr 7:42 He answered me, and said, This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide; therefore have they prayed for the weak.

  • AddEsth 14:18 Neither had thine handmaid any joy since the day that I was brought hither to this present, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham.

  • Esdr 7:47 For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?

  • The ground of necessity for the delay in executing the sentence lies, partly, in the probationary character of this present life.

  • But the framer of this proverb, who had little knowledge of that future, had seen enough in the meditative survey of this present to make him sure that the consequences of evil-doing were certain, and in a very true sense, penal.

  • I remember Liege best at this present distance by reason of a small thing that occurred as we rode, just before dusk, through a byway near the river.

  • This present day in Aix-la-Chapelle will be, I assume, much like all the other days I have spent here.

  • For food they would have slops dished up for them at such stopping places as this present one, and they would slake their thirst on water drawn from contaminated wayside wells and be glad of the chance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this present" 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:
    keeps well; never having; persuade them; royal exchequer; this belief; this century; this child; this collection; this form; this gentleman; this genus; this meeting; this occasion; this operation; this phenomenon; this plan; this practice; this remarkable; this scene; this second; this series; this singular; this statement; this they; this truth; this war