Presently used in a sentence

Presently in a sentence as an adverb

He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.

This brings to mind a larger question: what percentage of the human race is presently being paid to do useless work?

It's an interesting game to try to figure out which of our current beliefs are crazy even though no one presently thinks so.

If you do, you will sail easily to Series A, on your way to creating an rather large business which may or may not resemble the one you are presently running.

Interesting note:With Rasmus Lerdorf working at WePay, this means the creators of the two most presently popular web programming languages, Ruby and PHP, are now working for YC companies.

This quote caught my attention: There are many developers who are not presently active on a Ruby on Rails project who nonetheless have a vulnerable Rails application running on localhost:3000.

If they were selling trendy iPhone cases and had bitten off more orders than they could presently chew, then an X% rolling reserve for Y days would likely be sufficient to insulate against the risk of some orders not shipping.

Nothing seems to contradict what anyone has said about this job:* "It is true that I am paid below market value"* "If I had had to apply for the job with the presently listed requirements, I might not have gotten the offer.

But I had another advantage in it. My brother and the rest going from the printing-house to their meals, I remained there alone, and, despatching presently my light repast, which often was no more than a bisket or a slice of bread, a handful of raisins or a tart from the pastry-cook's, and a glass of water, had the rest of the time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.

The entire paper is a great read, but one part that strikes me as relevant to this discussion is:While we find much of the work presently being done on elaborate interface technologies -- DataGloves, head-mounted displays, special-purpose rendering engines, and so on -- both exciting and promising, the almost mystical euphoria that currently seems to surround all this hardware is, in our opinion, both excessive and somewhat misplaced.