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Example sentences for "now that"

  • Now that I've met you I can see a way to conquer the Land of Oz and be King there myself, which is better than being King of the Nomes.

  • Ruggedo was not really sorry, now that he thought about it, that Kiki had transformed all these Oz folks.

  • Now that he had regained his Magic Tools, he felt confident he could rescue Trot and Cap'n Bill.

  • I never will, now that I know it's bad," asseverated Davy between sobs.

  • I'm going to pretend right away that I am seventeen too, and I can do it, now that you're here.

  • I do hope, now that I've begun, I'll keep on till I'm as tall as father.

  • Mrs. Lynde says she thoroughly approves of the match and thinks its likely Miss Lavendar will give up her queer notions and be like other people, now that she's going to be married.

  • Now that we have discovered you we'll wear out our welcome coming to see you.

  • Now that he by chance encountered it, it recalled standards, ambitions, a society long forgot.

  • Now that I'm with you, I want to be with you; that's all.

  • Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before.

  • She needs a place of her own, now that she's beginning to be dressy.

  • Now that he was tempted to hope for another, he felt alarmed and shook his head.

  • Now that's just where Tom Sawyer warn't fair.

  • Now that is the way boys is always thinking, but he was the first one I ever heard come out and say it.

  • Ah, now that's a sensible question, and I will answer it.

  • The mischief he might have brought upon us, now that he had penetrated so far as our most retired citadel, is incalculable.

  • Why speak of her after this long silence, now that she is again so near to me, now that I go where she has gone?

  • Thy pardon for this long and tedious case, Which, now that I review it, needs must seem Unduly dwelt on, prolixly set forth!

  • Now that phrase `clothing in sights and sounds' may yield us the clue to the classification we are seeking.

  • Now that I come to die, Do I view the world as a vale of tears?

  • I should think you'd lie awake more than ever now--now that you've built your hopes so high and it'd be so awful to have them come to nothing.

  • On his mother's side, now that he thought of it, there was something perhaps better still than a heritage of librarians' craft and tastes.

  • His tone was extremely gracious, but he displayed none of the enthusiastic excitement which Thorpe perceived now that he had looked for.

  • But, now that he had laid hold of the local character, it pleased him that it should be so.

  • It was like no other, now that it had come.

  • Now that I have settled you and him here, I must go and earn your living.

  • Thoughts that I had hitherto restrained, thoughts that made my position harder than ever to endure, crowded on me now that I was alone.

  • But it has certainly had an influence over the first impressions that I have formed of her, now that we are living together again--for which reason only I have thought fit to mention it here.

  • It has partially worn away, now that we have fallen back into most of our old habits, and it will probably disappear before long.

  • Now that is a good idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from its lonesomeness.

  • Now that I've said it, I don't find it strange.

  • With a sincerely judicial air, now that he felt secure, he said: "Why not?

  • You'll see it yourself, now that I've called your attention to it.

  • Now that he is gone, you have no one to protect you.

  • Walter, now that he is gone and I have none on earth, I'll be your sister all my life, and think of you like one wherever we may be!

  • Now that he draws so near to his deliverance, he can add but one act of service--to repent, to die smiling, and thus to build up in confidence and hope the more timorous of my surviving followers.

  • Now that I am once more in possession of a modest competence; now that I have so long prepared myself in silent meditation, it becomes my superior duty to proceed to Paris.

  • Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young lady, now that I look at her.

  • Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist I naturally want to talk to you about Bunburying.

  • However, it makes no matter, for, now that I look at the inscription inside, I find that the thing isn't yours after all.

  • His extreme nervousness of a few days ago--starting almost at the sound of his own footstep--had given place to a certain air of bravado, now that everybody in the village believed the horse had kicked Tom.

  • She knew what the present trouble meant, now that it was started, and she knew in what it might end.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "now that" 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:
    current events; early death; had the greatest difficulty; high tide; inclined plane; little mare; lui dit; matter much; now and; now began; now called; now come; now have; now known; now she; now that; now used; now you; nowhere else; paternal government; pretty thick; remain behind; sang froid; strange kind; usually supposed; woman must