NOWADAYS in a Sentence

Learn NOWADAYS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

68 example sentences for NOWADAYS, such as:

1. PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.
2. Lots of students wear jeans nowadays.
3. Nobody gets rich from writing nowadays.
4. Yet doctors could do such things nowadays.
5. Children's TV nowadays is much more entertaining.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOWADAYS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nowadays
 ad.  during current time; presently
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  They knew that life nowadays was harsh and bare, that they were often hungry and often cold, and that they were usually working when they were not asleep.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
2  But if there were hardships to be borne, they were partly offset by the fact that life nowadays had a greater dignity than it had had before.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
3  Young folks enjoyed themselves nowadays, not like when she, Ivy Bolton, was young.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  But they're having to draw their horns in nowadays, now th pits are working so bad, and they haven't got the money.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  There was only one class nowadays: moneyboys.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  She never even touched him nowadays, and he never touched her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  Yet doctors could do such things nowadays.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  The old artist always did himself well: he took berths on the Orient Express, in spite of Connie's dislike of trains de luxe, the atmosphere of vulgar depravity there is aboard them nowadays.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
9  The far ends of the world are not five minutes from Charing Cross, nowadays.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  The women talk a lot more than the men, nowadays, and they are a sight more cock-sure.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  But then they're the maddest for spending, nowadays.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  They're all one-track minds nowadays.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  Still I don't know much what feelings are nowadays.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
14  Theresa Wright is her name, and the kind of maid you don't pick up nowadays.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
15  You must owe the City Fathers money nowadays if you want to be made Lord Mayor.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Children challenge their parents' authority far more nowadays than they did in the past.
2  Children's TV nowadays is much more entertaining.
3  The old type of family party is played out, young people demand something more exciting nowadays.
4  Lots of students wear jeans nowadays.
5  The idea of working for state-owned enterprises has little attraction to young people nowadays.
6  PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.
7  Mass unemployment seems to be a fact of life nowadays.
8  I don't hold with the way they do things nowadays.
9  So many films nowadays involve everyone and everything being blown to smithereens.
10  Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
11  Nobody gets rich from writing nowadays.
12  Wearing a hat is regarded as rather old-fashioned nowadays.
13  Accidents due to failure of safety equipment are uncommon nowadays.
14  Fewer students are opting for science courses nowadays.
15  Single parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays.