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Sentences starting with something

Something is worrying you, dad. [9]
Something is bothering you, dad. [9]
Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
Something was undoubtedly wrong. [11]
Something has gone wrong. [11]
Something has gone wrong, but she'll be here--yes. [11]
Something of Mr. Worthington's affairs was known: the mills, for instance, were not being run to their full capacity. [9]
Something was at work, as real in its effects as the sunlight, but invisible. [9]
Something in her words had ruled him to her own calmness, and at that moment he had the first flash of understanding of her nature and its true relation to his own. [11]
Something is stirring within. [10]

Sentences ending with something

I don't want you to see them, nor your sisters, nor nobody in this town; if a neighbor was to ask how is your uncles this morning your face would tell something. [5]
Let me show you something. [5]
I have always you know, been looking for something. [4]
And then--and then you can hear a wild laugh come out of the land, come up from the sea, come down from the sky--all waiting, waiting for something! [11]
The entwined letters, Y. F., of the design were not, he thought, of a meaningless, frivolous daintiness, but stood for something. [9]
I have--I am writing something. [4]
Max, if you would only work at something. [9]
I supposed you would be all settled by this time, or I should have humped myself to find you something. [8]
Then she said, without changing her position: "If you were, you might be worth something. [9]
Come, come, out with something! [5]

Short sentences using something

Yet something was wrong. [6]
Jane, there's something wrong. [13]
Perhaps even something worse? [5]
Something like this, wasn't it? [6]
And yet there was something. [4]
This was something unprecedented. [10]
It costs something, too. [9]
I have something to say. [11]
I got something to say. [11]
He said something to me. [11]

Sentences containing something two or more times

And it isn't your proposition--no, that doesn't fascinate me; it's something else, I don't quite know what; something that's born in you and oozes out of you, I suppose. [5]
I cannot offer you great wealth, but I say with confidence that I can offer you something better, something surer. [9]
And as the years went on we'd realise how every form of success was offset by something undone in another direction, something which would have given us joy and memory and content--so it seems. [11]
Not that he would break with it exactly; it was not necessary to do that; but he would find something to do, something worth a man's doing, or, at any rate, some occupation that should tax his time and his energies. [4]
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke. [2]
But after a while I saw there was something in Socialism that didn't appeal to me, something smothering,--a forced cooperation that did not leave one free. [9]
I cannot tell what it is, but there is something wrong in your nature, something that poisons your life. [11]
But then there was something about Cousin Elsie,--(the small, white scars began stinging, as he said this to himself, and he pushed his sleeve up to look at them)--there was something about Cousin Elsie he couldn't make out. [6]
But something more was done under this pressure, something more than creation of a habit of physical exertion to productive ends. [4]
The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]

More example sentences with the word something in them

You wouldn't fuss yourself about things here in Manitou and Lebanon, if there wasn't something you wanted to get. [11]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
The gems in your hanging stand for something more than that shining show. [10]
What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
At last the young soldier departed, and the very same day Adam was summoned to the monastery, to mend something in the grating before the treasury. [10]
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
She begged the young persons who had travelled to tell something of their experiences. [6]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
I was afraid you'd say something awkward. [8]
Didn't something tell you?--didn't you feel that you were sent? [5]
We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair... and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this. [2]
But by 'happiness' you, mean something more than the complacency and contentment which clothing and food might bring, and the removal of the economic fear,--and even the restoration of self-respect. [9]
The trouble with you, Honora, is that you want something badly very badly--and you haven't yet found out what it is. [9]
But I tell you what: if you want to see something fine, you must go down as soon as possible to Sunburst. [11]
I 'll tell you what,--the Master said,--I know something about these young fellows that come home with their heads full of "science," as they call it, and stick up their signs to tell people they know how to cure their headaches and stomach-aches. [6]
Was it something you wanted to forget there, some one you wanted to help here? [11]
Davy, I want you to do something for me. [9]
I must ask you to do something for me before I die. [10]
I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
When I met you that night there was something about you I couldn't account for. [9]
It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
When I tell you that a bit of ribbon in my button-hole sets my vanity prancing, I think you cannot be grievously offended that I smile at the resonant titles which make you something more than human in your own eyes. [6]
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [6]
I will tell you something more. [11]
I will tell you something more about Isis. [10]
I will give you something in my room which will pay the Nabathaean's charges ten times over. [10]
I am telling you something for your own good--which you probably know already. [9]
Now what would you say, Cleopatra, if I myself took a part in my procession--I say mine, since it is to be in my honor; that really would be for once something new and amusing. [10]
Don't you remember you said something of the kind the night of the election, years ago? [9]
I think now you know something of this young person. [6]
I've no doubt you know something about them, and that you would maintain they are justified on account of the indifference of the public, and of other reasons, but I can cite an instance that is simply legalized thieving. [9]
That's something that you just want to take on trust. [5]
Don't interrupt, unless you have something to say; though I should like to know how much gossip there is afloat that the minister does not know. [4]
Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
I don't blame you for that, I guess something happened to make you believe it. [9]
Do you think you could find me something to eat? [11]
For a time you can see he's hurt, his pride's wounded, because he shrinks away from that thing and don't want to talk about it--and so I used to think now he's learned something and he'll be more careful hereafter--but laws! [5]
If they do, you can bet there's something wrong. [11]
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]
This almost unnatural, yet quiet, intensity had behind it something besides the mere spirit of the sportsman. [11]
It sounded absurd, yet it did not repel her: something within her responded to it. [9]
They had not yet had a loud conversation among the men and a dispute about something important and clever. [2]
I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
If it might yet be something more than a mere post of honor to be the wife of Verus, I would not ask for the new dignity of becoming wife to Caesar. [10]
Perhaps there is yet a pheasant in the house, a roast fowl or something of the kind--but the hour, it is true, is late. [10]
For thousands of years the story of the Exodus has lived in the minds of numberless people as something actual, and it still retains its vitality. [10]
One of them wrote home to his people, and in his letter he said, "It seemed something divine to see her and hear her. [5]
There was nothing wrong or unseemly in what they said, it was witty and might have been funny, but it lacked just that something which is the salt of mirth, and they were not even aware that such a thing existed. [2]
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]
When I stopped writing last evening at the summons of the General, I was about to tell you something of the battle of Bentonville on Tuesday last. [9]
Mr. Chesterton, in writing about the American Revolution, observes that the real case for the colonists is that they felt that they could be something which England would not help them to be. [9]
Clemens would naturally write something about Bermuda, and began at once, "Random Notes of an Idle Excursion," and presently completed four papers, which Howells eagerly accepted for the Atlantic. [5]
But they also wove into my life something else which lends their memory a melancholy charm. [10]
I wish they would start something fresh. [5]
Later, perhaps, they would relent and see something of their friends, and throw open again the gates of a beautiful place long closed to the world. [9]
The Australasian Governor would not be so restless, perhaps, if he had a war, or a veto, or something like that to call for his reserve-energies, but he hasn't. [5]
Jamrach said he would have to think of something else--Jumbo couldn't be had; the Zoo wouldn't part with that elephant. [5]
Perhaps his diary would have something of interest with reference to the "Saturday Club," of which he was a member, which, in fact, formed itself around him as a nucleus, and which he attended very regularly. [6]
In France he would have produced something better--something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. [5]
Long ago something would have been done to commemorate them but that three of them were Protestants, and difficulties had been raised by the bigoted. [11]
Aye, husband, it would have become us better to guess something of this than to doubt Sirona. [10]
But if you would give me part of it and keep the rest--" "So that you might have something to remind you of me when you wished to laugh at my foolishness? [5]
Even Philip himself would feel the good effects of it; for Harry would have something and Col. [5]
Philometor and I would do it more than gladly, although you always want something monstrous. [10]
But then, perhaps, would come a letter from some quiet body in some out-of-the-way place, which showed me that I had said something which another had often felt but never said, or told the secret of another's heart in unburdening my own. [6]
In short, it would be much more agreeable if it extended to its own members something of the consideration and sympathy that it gives to those it regards as its inferiors. [4]
That devastating something would be agony to one who loved liberty and freedom--had not that ever been his watchword, liberty and freedom to do what he pleased in the world and with the world? [11]
The glimpse was worth something, as a remembrancer, but that was all. [5]
Must have something worrying him: he used to look as fresh as a clove pink. [6]
He began to work the oars again, reflecting as he did so, that he had something better to do than to think of a woman. [10]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
In low, kind words she spoke of his coming and the renewal of her hopes, coupled with fear also that he might not fit in with his new life, and--she could say it now--do something unbearable. [11]
But if he won't--that's his affair," said Marya Dmitrievna, looking for something in her reticule. [2]
I wished the woman would say something more; the longer she set still the uneasier I was. [5]
Stephanion, a Greek woman who grew up in a Macedonian household, must know something about her. [10]
He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
Was there something within me that might eventually draw me to do likewise? [9]
Something stood sentinel within her and forbade her every joy. [2]
Going to smash with you would be something like going to church with Mr. Lyon. [4]
Everybody was pleased with this; everybody said, "Now this is something like. [5]
His heart was with them all: not because it was their church that was burning, but because it was something dear to them. [11]
Still it took with the public, and gave me celebrity, as an original work was something remarkable and uncommon in America. [4]
Every detail connected with the matter costs something, and helps to fatten a priest. [5]
To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
Your profession deals with the facts of life that interest me most just now, and I want to know something of it. [6]
Nature is struggling with something, and I am afraid she is under in the wrestling-match. [6]
Presently he said, with something of hope in his voice-- "Perchance he is but mad upon this one strain, and hath his wits unmarred as toucheth other matter. [5]
He's by himself, with something of every sort in him from the top to the bottom. [11]
Then she added, with something of an impulse, "After all, it is foolish of me not to tell you. [9]
Had been tampering with something brown and sticky. [6]
To go now, with something accomplished, and turn my back forever on the world, with one last effort to do the impossible thing for some great cause, and fail and be lost forever--do you not understand? [11]
Your grandfather's balance with me was something less than one thousand five hundred, as I made him a remittance in December last. [9]
Come right along with me to the Eyrie, and we'll have something, to eat. [9]
The old church, with its severity, had actually stood for something. [9]
He was charmed with it; it gave him something to do. [5]
Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]

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