Used in a Sentence

presents

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for presents.

Editorial note

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect.

Examples15
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(law) The contents of the present document: the one in which the word presents appears.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of presents gathered in one view.

noun

(law) The contents of the present document: the one in which the word presents appears.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for presents.

noun

(law) The contents of the present document: the one in which the word presents appears.

Example sentences

1

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect.

2

The point is that you may have a really good app that users want/need, and which presents ads, but in some unobtrusive way that users don't mind.

3

This seems like a lot you want to place trust to whomever presents some kind of posturing than anything.

4

It presents you with a dirty noisy incomplete data set so you can ponder it forever.

5

Well, you could take the API it presents and fit it to another language's FFI.

6

The implicit claim is that the people running Google are not sociopaths, yet he presents no evidence to support this claim.

7

Luckily for Atlanta, the emerging convergence of TV-mobile-computer to a single device presents a tremendous need for more and more security products.

8

If the site presents me with a re-captcha, I don't even have to think whether to use that site.

9

If you are seen by not only him as unkind, but also by others as unkind, you'll be fired once the opportunity presents itself.

10

A wide-angle lens presents a wide field of view while exaggerating perspective, while a long lens isolates small detail and can reduce the sense depth.

11

I am not sure if watching someone unwrap presents on Youtube is utopian exactly for me, but it is for some people.

12

By varying the angle between the lenses in the same fashion as our eyes, Cameron presents a far more immersive way of experiencing the third dimension.

Quote examples

1

Last year this time, A Hong Kong TV station did an investigation report on how much "chocolate" was in the store packaged Christmas chocolate presents.

2

Lacking an organized criminal element, Appalachia presents not significantly more (nor less) danger to well-off tourists than any other area where poor people live and a few will -by statistics- be criminals; and considerably less than various cities, certainly various neighborhoods, where robbery and other violent crime are common and more or less an "industry."

3

"Running Code and Perpetual Beta" presents the dogmas of "release early, release often" and constant chaotic flux in software as a natural result of great ideas, as opposed to being the result of a cascade of attention-deficit teenagers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use presents in a sentence?

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect.

What does presents mean?

(law) The contents of the present document: the one in which the word presents appears.

What part of speech is presents?

presents is commonly used as noun.