nowadays
[ˈnaʊədeɪz]
Definition:
1. At the present time, in contrast with the past.
2. The period of time that is happening now.
3. In these times.
'nowadays' example sentence:
- Nowadays, a great deal has changed.
- Older parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays.
- We are too busy to entertain much nowadays.
- Nowadays that sort of innocence is in short supply.
- Men are doing more housework nowadays.
- You're miles better than most of the performers we see nowadays.
- The term "early retirement" is nearly always a euphemism for layoffs nowadays.
- She tended to sleep lightly nowadays.
- He never tells me anything nowadays.
- College students are so wild nowadays.
- Nowadays the bride almost always wears white, no matter how many times she has been down the aisle.
- It is so popular among boys nowadays.
- I don't hold with the way they do things nowadays.
- Too many people are chasing too few jobs nowadays.
- Nowadays there are fewer extrinsic pressures to get married.
- She is rarely seen in public nowadays.
- People are more aware of the risks of smoking nowadays, but more young women are smoking than ever. Go figure!
- Nowadays we say someone is 'speech-impaired', not dumb.
- Gaelic has been a dying language for many years, though children are nowadays taught it in school.
- Nowadays, we are exploring space.
- Nowadays, only the two big houses remain roofed.
- The term 'early retirement' is nearly always a euphemism for redundancy nowadays.
- I don't see much of Tony nowadays.
- Nowadays, a great deal can be done to alleviate back pain.
- People live longer nowadays, and they are better educated.
- You need at least ten pounds if you go to the cinema nowadays — it's really bad.
- I think it's very rare to have big families nowadays.
- What perturbs me is that magazine articles are so much shorter nowadays.
- Increasing numbers of people elect to work from home nowadays.
- Children are reckoned to be more sophisticated nowadays.
- Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
- Nowadays a lot of people work from home.
- Five pounds doesn't buy much nowadays.
- Nowadays most kids prefer watching TV to reading.
- Letter-writing is a lost art nowadays.
- There isn't a lot of call for small specialist shops nowadays.
- Nowadays a premature baby has a very good chance of survival.
- Nobody gets rich from writing nowadays.
- Jobs nowadays are much more insecure than they were ten years ago.
- Nowadays it's acceptable for women to be ambitious. But it wasn't then.
- Children have no respect for their elders nowadays.