How to use "present" in a sentence

I do not consider it necessary, at present, for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety, or excitement.

For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this."

His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.

And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels.

They have made me the present instrument of their wishes

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

A present."

You shouldn't have bought us such an expensive present - I mean, it's wonderful, but you don't have enough money

Beatrice, Maxim's sister, had promised to give me a wedding present

'It was a wedding present

In less than seventeen hours - at 8:00 P.M., December 30 - the Golden Pyramid Hotel would present a special, invitational, VIP premiere of Magyck! , and the following night, New Year's Eve, the show would open to the general public

Knowing this feast had been laid on for the party, few of those present had eaten dinner, and most of the dancers had eaten nothing since a light lunch

She doubted that he would be able to answer that question even if he were present to hear it

And they thought about those things that neither of them wanted to speak of: murder past and murder present.

He didn't try to pretend otherwise with himself, no matter what face he had to present to the world

This was the first time he had ever mentioned flies, and I was relieved that Commissaire Charas was not present

These curses were for the present and the future.