Use anything in a sentence
Sentences starting with anything
- Anything more than you've told? [11]
- Anything that keeps you up till three o'clock in the morning has some penitential quality. [4]
- Anything more that we could say now and here would lead to no good issue for either you or me. [10]
- Anything you may want to know, I am here to tell you. [9]
- Anything might happen to him--anything would be grateful; the thought of his study in the parish house was unbearable; the Dalton Street which had mocked and repelled him suddenly became alluring with its champaigns of light and inviting stretches of darkness. [9]
- Anything rather than the grave and the darkness of Hades!--Come, I am strong again now. [10]
- Anything is better than this white-blooded degeneration to which we all tend. [6]
- Anything but high spirits and nonsense would be unpardonable on such a morning. [4]
- Anything in the semblance of a town lot, no matter how situated, was salable, and at a figure which would still have been high if the ground had been sodded with greenbacks. [5]
- Anything you can safely do to let her soldiers or any part of them go home and vote at the State election will be greatly in point. [7]
Sentences ending with anything
- Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
- Didn't he tell you anything? [9]
- No, other Indians would have noticed these things, but Cooper's Indians never notice anything. [5]
- He has a wonderful knack at shutting his eyes to the sinister side of anything. [4]
- We tempted him with the delicacies of the season, but it soon became impossible for him to eat, and for two weeks he ate or drank scarcely anything. [4]
- I will fight with any man all alone, without a gun or arrow or anything. [11]
- Two years' time will make us capitalists, in spite of anything. [5]
- But the young wife hardly tasted anything. [10]
- Indeed, a man who didn't give his mind to what he ate wouldn't have any mind by-and-by to give to anything. [4]
- I don't know which way to move; I don't know what's best to do about anything. [8]
Short sentences using anything
- Has anything upset you? [11]
- Call it anything you like. [9]
- Has anything gone wrong? [5]
- Is there anything wrong? [11]
- He'd sacrifice anything to them. [8]
- There warn't anything to say. [5]
- Have you anything to propose? [11]
- He hadn't anything to do. [8]
- I will agree to anything. [2]
- Nobody can tell them anything. [5]
Sentences containing anything two or more times
- I now ask whether he is able to find in anything that Judge Trumbull, for instance, has said, or in anything that I have said, a justification at all compared with what we have, in this instance, for that sort of vulgarity. [7]
- Of course we were all distracted in a moment--everybody was flying everywhere, and nobody doing anything worth anything. [5]
- Then the world went out in darkness, and I didn't feel anything more, and didn't know anything at all --at least for a while. [5]
- And maybe it was so; we didn't know anything about it, but we judged it would please him, and it did, and didn't cost us anything. [5]
- But if there was anything wrong in the way she spoke, or if you didn't feel like she had any right to question you up as if we suspected you of anything mean, I want you to say so. [8]
- And yet it was a fact to dare anything, and to do anything. [9]
- They're drunk enough to-night to want to do anything, and to-morrow when they've got sore heads they'll do anything. [11]
- But that goes to my daughters, who can't get along as well as I can because I have carefully raised them as young ladies, who don't know anything and can't do anything. [5]
- It never occurred to me that I was doing anything or favoring anything to reduce to a dead uniformity all the local institutions of the various States. [7]
- They ought not to be allowed much space among better people--people who did something--I grant that; but they ought at least to be allowed to state why they didn't do anything, and also to explain the process by which they didn't do anything. [5]
More example sentences with the word anything in them
- You can see, yourself, that there isn't anything more to be reported--invention is exhausted. [5]
- I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
- If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
- I don't mean your friend, Humphrey Crewe--it's anything to get office with him. [9]
- Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
- When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
- Mr. Beaton said you we' a pofect Bahyard in friendship, and you would sacrifice anything to it. [8]
- Is there anything you want to say before that? [11]
- But I tell you true that though I love you better than anything in the world, if things had gone well with you I'd never have come to you. [11]
- If you hope, you transform a pleasant garden into the Elysian fields; if you fear anything you behold in a burning roof the conflagration of a world. [10]
- I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
- I don't want you to believe anything I say; I only want you to try to see what makes me believe it. [6]
- Let me ask you this--that you'll not believe anything bad of me till you've heard what I've got to say. [11]
- Tell me, can you think of anything like it?--the strange light, the white bear of the Pole, that has no friends at all except the shooting stars, the great ice plains, the quick night hurrying on, the silence--such silence as no man can think! [11]
- And, to tell you the truth, I believe he would like that a good deal better; I believe that, if there's anything he hates, it's openness and candor. [8]
- I--I wouldn't frighten you that way for anything in the world. [9]
- The company, don't you see, must not in any way be suspected with having anything to do with it, no mention of its name as a company, no advertisement of the road on a fly-leaf or cover. [4]
- No matter where you put anything, they are not going to let it stay there. [5]
- Something--call it anything you like--made us meet on this neutral ground. [11]
- Did you see--do you know anything that makes you think he had been trying to do that? [8]
- And the Eschelles--do you know anything of the Eschelles? [4]
- That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
- Neither any thing you have presented me, nor anything I have otherwise learned, has convinced me that he has been unfaithful to this charge. [7]
- By the time you have drawn twenty-one wales and written "William I.--1066-1087--twenty-one years" twenty-one times, those details will be your property; you cannot dislodge them from your memory with anything but dynamite. [5]
- Every one says you have done such splendid work for England, and that now you can have anything you want. [11]
- Do you think you have anything to say about the use of my money, scraped up in forty years in Ingy? [4]
- Poor cat, suppose you had--" "Now I am not going to suppose anything about the cat. [5]
- She said, "Will you go to him and tell him that this meddlesome minx, here, had no business to say anything about me to him, and you take it all back? [8]
- I have loved you from the moment we first met; and if my life has anything left worth accepting, it is yours. [6]
- I know how you feel, and I shouldn't let anything of that sort go out uncontradicted afterward. [8]
- Mr. Bass, have you ever done anything the pleasure of doing which was pay enough, and to spare? [9]
- I doubt if you ever did anything better in your life. [9]
- But I suppose you don't know anything about politics. [9]
- Bless my soul, you don't know anything about married life. [5]
- If anything happens, you can turn it into a boardinghouse. [4]
- Do you think you can tell me anything I do not know? [10]
- Yes, sah; an' you can jes' call for anything you want, and dish yer whole railroad'll be turned wrong end up an' inside out for to get it for you. [5]
- Jackson will bring you anything you desire, and should you wish to drive, I shall be delighted to show you the country. [9]
- No, really, have you anything against me? [2]
- Haven't they told you anything about the great miracle of the restoration of a holy fountain? [5]
- Feeble hearts as you all are, respect the experience of the aged, and bless Fate if it should lame the horse of the Kadi's messenger!--However, you will not listen to anything oracular, so it will be better to talk of something else. [10]
- They had not yet said anything to each other, except how happy, how glad, how thankful they were to have each other again; then a sentinel passed, and she started up, exclaiming anxiously: "So late, so late; Zorrillo will be waiting! [10]
- He would just yell that way, not for anything in particular, but merely on account of a kind of devilish comfort he got out of it. [5]
- Astruc was sixty-nine years old when he published his "Conjectures," the first attempt, we are told, to decide the authorship of the Pentateuch showing anything like a discerning criticism. [3]
- I went a year to the high school, and then I was all for coming to the city--I couldn't stand Madison, there wasn't anything going on. [9]
- When anything went wrong, Sam'l had an appropriate word for the occasion. [9]
- It would be wrong, it would be impossible, to give the man anything after such insolence. [8]
- If anything went wrong, I never wasted any time in telling him about it, and I guess it was one reason he liked me. [9]
- When anything goes wrong, his perception of it is like a lightning flash,--and he acts as quickly. [9]
- Has anything gone wrong in the detective business? [5]
- In spite of wrong and injury, it would live on and on; and neither Time nor crime, nor anything mortal could obliterate it from his heart's oracles. [11]
- They were under written contract to Mr. Street, but they did not care anything for that. [5]
- He could have written anything that is in the Plays and Poems. [5]
- So I am writing to you not because I have anything to say, but because you don't have to answer and I need something to do this afternoon..... [5]
- I don't often write anything that I laugh at myself, but I can hardly think of that thing without laughing). [5]
- They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
- I only meant--I wouldn't do anything to make our friendship the subject of gossip. [9]
- The professor's pipe wouldn't answer; it warn't anything but a mershum, and a person that's got used to a cob pipe knows it lays a long ways over all the other pipes in this world, and you can't git him to smoke any other. [5]
- It is,--said I.--But would you have the kindness to tell me if you know anything about this deformed person? [6]
- I suppose one would take a man into the opera in London, where he cannot go in anything but that sort. [4]
- He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead. [5]
- But, woman-like, she would not open the way for him to say anything more definite just yet. [11]
- I wish he would make up his mind to come and seek me--in disguise, of course--I would--" "He is very timid, and it would not suggest to him anything so unpracticable. [10]
- Only yesterday this would have roused her wrath; to-day she could forgive him; for she could forgive anything to this unhappy soul--to the man on whom she had brought such deep anguish. [10]
- The ordinary citizen would have accomplished nothing--the brother-in-law of a directory can accomplish anything he wants to. [5]
- I believe they would eat protoplasm as quick as anything else, ripe or green. [4]
- If possible, I would be very glad of another movement early enough to give us some benefit from the fact of the enemy's communication being broken; but neither for this reason nor any other do I wish anything done in desperation or rashness. [7]
- The President, the worthy rector, was good at plain sailing in the track of the common moralities and proprieties, but was liable to get muddled if anything came up requiring swift decision and off-hand speech. [6]
- Like most inspirations worth anything, it was very simple. [9]
- If my opinion's worth anything, I should not hesitate to declare that we're on the threshold of a greater religious era than the world has ever seen. [9]
- A blow-out ain't worth anything as a blow-out, unless a body has company. [5]
- And are the worst wages paid in these mills anything short of death? [9]
- I am so worried about him, and he doesn't eat anything and looks so haggard. [9]
- Now, if the world of readers hates anything it sees in print, it is apology. [6]
- I believe The World for Sale shows as plainly as anything can show the vexed and conglomerate life of a Western town. [11]
- Had the Old World anything to show more positive and uncompromising in all the elements of character than the Englishman? [4]
- Son of the working-people as he was, Beaton had never cared anything about such matters; he did not know about them or wish to know; he was perhaps too near them. [8]
- Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge. [2]
- We want to work three days more; if we don't find anything, we won't bring in no bill against you. [5]
- And not a word about anything any of the time. [4]
- The sky, the woods, the waters, the storms, life, death love, the hope and vision of eternity,--these are images that write themselves in poetry in every soul which has anything of the divine gift. [6]
- To poke a wood-fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. [4]
- A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can just pile it on, too--pile it on and sock it to him-- he won't ever holler. [5]
- I know you won't do anything foolish. [9]
- You do not wonder that China is today more like an herbarium than anything else. [4]
- I watched this woman to see if she would ever do anything for any one else. [4]
- I am not without talent for drawing, and even at that time it was an easy matter to reproduce anything which had caught my eye, not only distinctly, but sometimes attractively and with a certain degree of fidelity to nature. [10]
- She was here with you, and a lot she cared about anything else. [9]
- Chrysilla was acquainted with life, and knew that Eros never mingles more arbitrarily in the intercourse of a young couple than when, after a long separation, there is anything whatever to forgive. [10]
- Having sat awhile with her visitors without understanding anything of what they were saying, she softly left the room and went to the nursery. [2]
- I have shared with her anything I have had since times went wrong with us and our family. [11]
- Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking and feeling at that moment. [2]
- The wise abbot wished to avoid anything, that would cause excitement, during this time of rebellion against the power of the Church, but the magistrate claimed the right to commence proceedings against the doctor. [10]
- I do not wish to say anything as to who shall be the Republican candidate for the Legislature in your district, further than that I have full confidence in Dr. [7]
- In Egypt, the wise man is never surprised at anything, and Kingsley had gone from experience to experience without dismay. [11]
- All the study windows have Venetian blinds; they long ago went out of fashion in America but they have not been replaced with anything half as good yet. [5]
- He was perfectly willing that churches (being himself a member), and Sunday-schools, and missionary enterprises should go on; in fact, I do not believe he ever opposed anything in his life. [4]
- Do what I will, they won't answer my German with anything but English; if that goes on, they'll stand stock-still. [5]
- Look them over, will you, and see whether there is anything there worth saving. [6]
- No sportsman, however, will use anything but a fly, except he happens to be alone. [4]
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