in-a-sentence.com, use thing in a sentence

Use thing in a sentence

Sentences ending with thing

They grate on your finer sensibilities, and all that sort of thing. [9]
He will help you, I am sure, with forming your committee and arranging, if you will insist on doing this thing. [11]
I beg that you will forget this absurd thing. [5]
I will tell you what I think will be the very thing. [5]
Let me tell you one thing. [6]
The highest breeding, you know, comes round to the Indian standard,--to take everything coolly,--nil admirari,--if you happen to be learned and like the Roman phrase for the same thing. [6]
I say that you can't work the sacred rites of hospitality in a better cause, and what I propose is a little dinner for the purpose of recognizing the hit we've made with this thing. [8]
You pretend, that you are only staying here to please your wife, but it's no such thing. [10]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
It's many a year I've been a-dreamin', but now they're comin' over 'n' over the same thing. [6]

Short sentences using thing

Everybody hears the whole thing. [4]
So the thing went on. [5]
It is the very thing! [8]
I will do this thing. [11]
Such a simple thing? [6]
What's the first thing? [11]
Unification is the thing. [5]
That's no new thing. [5]
That's just the thing. [5]
Pictures are the thing. [5]

Sentences containing thing two or more times

The thing is, you must know how to talk to them, to say the right thing, the flattering, the tactful, and the nice sentimental thing,--they mostly have middle-class sentimentality--and then you get what you want. [11]
Everybody here says you can't get a thing like this through Congress without buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery, but I think I've taught them a thing or two--if I could only make them believe it. [5]
Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
Writing of his work on the Adirondacks, he says, "If I should ever live to get this wonderful thing written, I expect it will show one thing, if no more; and that is, that every thing has an opposite. [4]
But the man who knew of the terrible thing he had done, who had saved him from the consequences of that terrible thing, was in sore trouble, and this broke down the gloomy guard he had kept over his dread secret. [11]
The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the government under which we live is this very thing. [7]
The only thing which gave either any chance was the very thing Baker & I proposed,--an adjustment with themselves. [7]
I think that when we all see one thing alike, it is evidence that, as regards that one thing, our minds are perfectly sound. [5]
I think that when we all see one thing alike, it is evidence that as regards that one thing, our minds are perfectly sound. [5]
I've told you what Tynie says, but he doesn't know at all what I know; he doesn't see the danger I see, doesn't realize the mad thing in your brain, the sad thing weighing down your heart--and hers. [11]

More example sentences with the word thing in them

By St. Patrick, you've made yourself captain with the good-will of all, and your iron hand has held the thing together. [11]
But you've said yourself, Mr. Crewe, that we've got to deal with this thing practically. [9]
If you soak yourself in drink and fail in your blow, and I am not ready with the poisoned stiletto the thing won't come off neatly. [10]
Fay has taken you're pretendin' to--to care for me for the thing it looks on the face. [13]
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]
Your generous heart, your love of truth, and your beautiful reverence for the gods, your courage and heroism, in short, every thing that I love and honor in you, I shall give to the hero of my tale. [10]
The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
Numbers of the young men took the paint and painted themselves, and one of the party took the head by the hair and said-- 'Look, you ugly thing, and see your paints on the faces of warriors. [5]
If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
Women might dislike you--many of them would--though you could not understand why; but you are good, and that, I suppose, is the best thing in the world. [11]
And I wish you'd write it down so that the thing would be municipal. [11]
Now I want you, if you'll be so good, to go around with me to the Pacific delegation, for I want to rush this thing through and get along home. [5]
The cruelest thing you Yankees did was to force us, who couldn't fight, to go over there for sympathy. [4]
The first thing you will naturally wish to look at will be the earth you have just left. [6]
When you say you will do a thing 'directly,' you mean 'immediately'; in the American language--generally speaking--the word signifies 'after a little. [5]
I will tell you what that thing was that come back into my memory. [5]
The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. [5]
I don't ask you to reveal it, but I will suppose a case--a case which you will answer as a starting point for the real thing I am going to come at, and that's all I want. [5]
Now I'll tell you the whole thing, and you'll understand it. [5]
Shall I tell you the smartest thing you ever did? [9]
Now what would you take that thing to be? [5]
If you, Philip--if you say it is all right, I will believe that it is right, for you would never want your wife to have one single wrong thing like a dark spot on her life with you--would you? [11]
I will help you perfect the thing, and give it the finishing touch. [10]
My note to you only means that if you know of any such thing rendering a suspension of the execution proper, on your own judgment, you are at liberty to suspend it. [7]
If there are, you might speak of the renewed activity and all that sort of thing, in the hay business, you know. [5]
One thing only you may do. [10]
But what do you let a person look at your hand for, with that awful thing printed on it? [5]
Don't I tell you I can't sell myself out to a thing I don't believe in? [8]
I can't tell you how queerly this sort of thing affects me. [9]
I don't believe you heard a thing he said. [9]
The one thing you have--" He broke off, nodding his head in amusement. [11]
Older folk than you have wondered at the same thing before now. [12]
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]
The only chance you have is to ignore the thing from now on. [9]
The elixir made you happy, my father, because you are good and pure, and because the beautiful, to the pursuit of which you have dedicated your life, ennobles everyone and makes every thing harmonious that comes from you. [10]
As soon as you get a few thousand people together in a town, there is somebody that every sharp thing you say is sure to hit. [6]
I will reward you for it with the only thing that the daughter of the wealthy Krates cannot purchase, yet which she probably rates at no low value--the love of her royal friend. [10]
Think the thing you do is better than what anybody else does, and you're well started. [11]
But why do you do a thing like this when you must know I need every man here to help turn out these machines? [9]
And we thought you could make him see this thing straight, if any man could. [9]
The best thing you could do would be to burn whole rows of these tenements, they are ideal breeding grounds for disease. [9]
For the rest, you can think of me as badly as you will, or as well, for what I do henceforth is the only thing that really concerns the world, Monsieur le Cure. [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]
The best thing you can do is to let me die, for then you would be safe once for all from my wickedness, and all would be over and done with. [10]
The thing is--do you believe me? [13]
That thing which you are about to tell. [5]
I could surprise you about him--and there isn't any reason why I should keep the thing to myself. [11]
Now I'll tell you a perfectly wonderful thing that he done. [5]
With apparent absent-mindedness, yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, Prince Vasili did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. [2]
It made distinct, yet with no obvious purpose, how good were friendship and confidence--which might be the most unselfish thing in the world--between two men. [11]
There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her. [11]
He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the varmint curled up and ready for another spring. [5]
A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
During all the years of our married life, he has never said such a thing as that. [9]
This was ten years before they had the authority to do the same thing as to the States existing at the adoption of the Constitution. [7]
For one thing, X always spoke with such confidence--perhaps that helped. [5]
The last thing Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn--and this is told of him by the Gippies themselves-was to cough up the bullet from his throat, and spit it out upon the ground. [11]
I have been wrought and unsettled in mind by apprehensions, and that is a thing that is not helpable when one is in a strange land and sees his resources melt down to a two months' supply and can't see any sure daylight beyond. [5]
The thing went wrong, but checking off my blunder he blundered too,--out of sheer wonder, perhaps, at my bungling,--and I disarmed him. [11]
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 it is written; and you could actually declare before the judges a thing that was false, and that you knew would bring others to ruin? [10]
And when the writer is making a story and finds it necessary to report some of the talk of his characters observe how cautiously and anxiously he goes at that risky and difficult thing. [5]
I think the writer forgets there is such a thing as self-sacrificing love and disinterested devotion. [14]
I determined to write to my dear Alixe the true history of my life, even to the point--and after--of this thing which now was bringing me to so ill a pass. [11]
I don't often write anything that I laugh at myself, but I can hardly think of that thing without laughing). [5]
One resolves to write a book, as he might to take a journey or to practice on the piano, and the thing is done. [4]
Try as we would, we could not get out of our minds the Thing that lay under the oak. [9]
She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
I wish you would take that office, and fit it up handsomely, so that I can omit telling people that by this time you are handsomely located, when I know it is no such thing. [5]
That Mr. Billson would read a private paper was a thing which could not occur to me; he was an honourable man, and he would be above that. [5]
I think I would rather see it than any other thing in the world. [5]
No, the drawing-room would not quite do, though it was near the perfect thing. [11]
But surely you would not be so unoriginal, so cliche, as to say the same thing to me that you said to Mr. [11]
Your brother Marcus would never have done such a thing, I am very sure! [10]
Some believed he would march at once, others that he could not accomplish the investment before fall, others that the siege would be long, and bravely contested; but upon one thing all voices agreed: that Orleans must eventually fall, and with it France. [5]
As the phaeton would make the distance to the station in less time than the car, this seemed the sensible thing to do, and Denzil's spirits fell. [11]
If any man would like to be amused by a sight of that little thing which the President calls by that big name, he can have it by turning to Niles's Register, vol. [7]
A wiser person would have kept such a thing discreetly to himself, but with this harmless creature everything comes out. [5]
He declared they would hang him if he did such a thing. [5]
And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
She said she would do her best by him, because, whether he was good, bad, or indifferent, he was the Lord's, and nothing that was the Lord's was a thing to be neglected. [5]
Very likely nothing would come of all this espionage; but, at any rate, the first thing to be done with a man you want to have in your power is to learn his habits. [6]
The thing itself would break the daily monotony of life and provide hushed gossip for vraic gatherings and veilles for a long time to come. [11]
The second thing would be to depolarize every fixed religious idea in the mind by changing the word which stands for it. [6]
Of course that would be a fine thing. [4]
Often the warder would announce the senator and his wife, and their vigorous and healthy minds always hit on the very thing she needed. [10]
It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's. [5]
The thought was worthy of a gentleman of breeding; he had the true thing in his heart. [11]
This broken and worthless thing, it is true, was powerful to justify her in the opinions of her judges and her enemies; with this in her hand she would easily confute her accusers. [10]
The only thing worth doing in this world is to live life according to one's convictions--and one's heart. [11]
What is the worst thing you ever said of me? [11]
I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo--that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture--great in every thing he undertook. [5]
Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
Would not the world have a right to say that the only decent thing he could do was to eliminate himself from the equation? [11]
Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know--there's a grave somewhere for me. [5]
Let time and works speak, and Cecil will give the thing a push at the proper moment. [9]
I wanted to work at the first thing that appealed to me. [11]
This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do. [5]
I read the words aloud to him, and he laughed, and remarked, "'Tis a foolish thing that--The Scarlet Woman, mast like. [11]
As for the word, I hate the sound of it, for it conveys a lie; and as for the thing itself, I wish it was in hell, where it belongs. [5]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word thing in a sentence? How do you use thing in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word thing? It contains example sentences with the word thing, a sentence example for thing, and thing in sample sentence.