THINGS in a Sentence

Learn THINGS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for THINGS, such as:
1. Custom makes all the things easy.
2. Don't say bad things about others.
3. All good things come to he who waits.
4. The beginnings of all things are small.
5. He'll be shyer an readier to take things ill.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of THINGS
thing
 n.  a special objective
 n.  a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Yes, they are tiny growing things and they might be crocuses or snowdrops or daffodils," she whispered.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Where gardening is done all sorts of delightful things to eat are turned up with the soil.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  "They're things as helps themselves," said Martha.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  It seemed as if all the interesting things were happening in one day.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer things happening.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
6  Dickon carried his knife in his hand and showed her things which she thought wonderful.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  You remind me of some one else who loved the earth and things that grow.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  She found out that because he had been an invalid he had not learned things as other children had.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  I wonder," she said slowly, "if it would not do him good to go out into a garden and watch things growing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  Perhaps they were both of them thinking strange things children do not usually think.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  He never talks about dead things or things that are ill.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  Mary thought that there seemed to be a number of uncomfortable things he was not to forget.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  The long warm rain had done strange things to the herbaceous beds which bordered the walk by the lower wall.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  He'll be shyer an readier to take things ill.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  He knows a good many things out of books but he doesn't know anything else.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
2  Many of us do stupid things in our youth, but we should have the good grace to admit them.
3  I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most people take for granted.
4  Love makes you hold on to things you wouldn't have been able to.
5  Grandmother has a good memory;she can remember things which happened many years ago.
6  Many things now cost double what they did a few years ago.
7  I agree things look difficult, but the situation is far from irretrievable.
8  Custom makes all the things easy.
9  If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
10  Moderation in all things is the best of rules.
11  The brightest of all things, the sun, has its spots.
12  All good things come to he who waits.
13  The beginnings of all things are small.
14  Don't say bad things about others.
15  For a moment, can remember many things, also missed a lot.