How to Use here and now in a Sentence

here and now

noun
  • The here and now is a lot of fun.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • Let’s get back to the here and now.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Let’s get back to the here and now.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • All that matters is the here and now.
    — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Jones is focused on the here and now.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 21 June 2026
  • But the here and now has been promising.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • My questions about this boyfriend are just in the here and now.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
  • But at this point, right here and now, take the win, feel good and move on.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • So, what’s the solution for the here and now?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Myricks talked about people of faith seeing more than the here and now.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The claim wasn’t that everything was fine and dandy in the here and now.
    — Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The heroes of the team are now in their dotage so the time to strike again is here and now.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Artists who are ahead of their time often need the most support in the here and now.
    — Liza Lentini, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • His best chance to catch a glimpse of the heavens comes here and now, before sunup.
    — [email protected], Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2014
  • The payoff will be there down the line—and even more than that, it will be felt here and now.
    — Siobhan O’Connor, Time, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Today is not the day to break precedence, but rather to work with the here and now.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
  • But there is not much reason to think that this is our story — in the here and now.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Ask simply to live more faithfully in the here and now.
    — Terry Mattingly, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Based on the here and now, Inter have just doubled their lead.
    — SI.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • But for the here and now, give Vodnik props for chutzpah.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
  • That means only 10 percent of our time is in the here and now.
    — Sara Angle, SELF, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In the here and now in Streator, there's gratitude for that.
    — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Before here and now could start, though, Nas had to use the bathroom.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • But will Carrick have half an eye on next season, or just the here and now?
    — Ian Irving, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • But the point of a product review is to evaluate the here and now.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile the Chilean people are so angry about the here and now.
    — Time, 15 Nov. 2019
  • So how does the iPad Pro fare as a consumer device in the here and now?
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The point of Clean, however, is that this past is just prelude to the here and now.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Focus is sharpened on players who can augment Emery’s squad in the here and now.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025

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