Sentence examples for of a present from inspiring English sources

"The whole idea of a present is to please people and make them happy," she said.

LESLIE Your idea of a present is getting me something that you want.

After receiving notification, the recipient can choose whether to click on the image of a present to see what's inside.

Good Gifts lets people give to worthy causes on behalf of others in lieu of a present.

I was just hoping that some athletes would take the opportunity given to them – a sort of a present, like, 'Here, use it'.

4. Develop balanced biographies of world leaders and create "mixed media" collages to display as part of a "Present Political Leaders Hall of Fame".

Peterson dismissed the possibility of a present-day position player taking the ball for a start.

It is an exposé of a present-day regime of fear The film is not a historical narrative.

"In mood, Hart is something of a present-day Daphne du Maurier: she writes ominously, creating an atmosphere laden with mystery," Carol Peace Robins wrote here in 1998.

(It is, by contrast, a little depressing to see another, Derek Jacobi, lending his imprimatur to this folly in the role of a present-day narrator).

The pictures of a present-day family at a holiday dinner on the first night of Hanukkah include portraits of the Birnbaum family of Larchmont; the Leichts of Mamaroneck; and Ms. Popp's daughter, Zoe, and son, Wynn Simmons.