How to Use even now/then in a Sentence

even now/then

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  • And even now that the film is out, the merch tie-ins are still going.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • The song feels so fresh, even now, that it could’ve been written last week.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And even then, the adjustments made weren’t quite enough for the areas that got the most.
    Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
  • And even then, there will be people who will not be swayed.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The new Siri won’t launch until the fall and, even then, will be labeled a beta.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 June 2024
  • One thing was clear even then: Lonnie and I were bound to each other.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Biden contended that even now, the state of the world is not as bleak as during past crises.
    Dave Lawler, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
  • And even then, there will be more pieces required to complete the puzzle.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
  • Turned on lockdown mode, and even then its showing the same alert, and crashing.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But even then, what will Bryce Young look like with a handful of starts under his belt?
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • And even then, abortions can be performed if the patient’s health or life is at risk.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But the best moments in the book are when Moreno gets to brag about a red hot career that even now shows no signs of cooling.
    Shannon Carlin, TIME, 15 July 2024
  • Arjun Kharpal One of the most interesting things over the last few years, and even now, there’s all this talk about the move to the cloud, right?
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 23 July 2024
  • But that is the question, even now, that is so difficult to answer.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The best surf fishing reels and rods can cost hundreds of dollars and even then, can still succumb to sand and salt in no time.
    Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 30 May 2024
  • Lewis found several things set the Bay Area music scene apart even then.
    John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • But even now, Little House on the Prairie holds a significant place in her life.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But even then, something about Franzen’s argument felt wrong to me.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Or else that the husband was even now a musician in a nightly piano bar.
    Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Except even then, a quick test may not give an accurate idea of how a mattress will feel in six months’ time.
    Samson McDougall, Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Prior to the Tonys, Mulvaney stepped on the red carpet at the Grammys in February, and even then red was her color of choice for the night.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But even then, his sights were already set on country music.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2024
  • And even then, nobody in management was hounding the team about downloads or ad sales.
    Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The stadium gradually filled up over the first couple of innings, but even then, about half of the crowd was in blue.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The job was a poisoned chalice; even then, gangs were estimated to be in control of more than half of Port-au-Prince.
    Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But even then, the numbers didn’t add up, says Professor Chapman.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
  • The singer’s name has been used as a meth code word for decades, with a New York Post article from 2005 noting its use even then by Craigslist dealers.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • Yet even now, China shows few signs of reducing its reliance on debt.
    Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Zummo’s conversations with the students sets out that his path was equally messy, even now as his band is closing up shop.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Residents cannot remove a tree without permission from the city, and, even then, the tree typically must be replaced.
    Jessica Pishko, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024

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