How to Use thing in a Sentence

thing

noun
  • What is that thing on the floor?
  • Are all your things packed?
  • It was the worst thing that could have happened.
  • Let's just forget about the whole thing and move on.
  • He is good at making things out of clay.
  • The one thing I hate most is being lied to.
  • My doctor told me to avoid fatty things like donuts and potato chips.
  • Birth is a miraculous thing.
  • We must respect all living things.
  • That sunset was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
  • And the curfew thing just kind of gets in the way of that.
    Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
  • And theme park Twitter was there to meme the whole thing.
    R.i.p. Murphy, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2023
  • But if this were all just a lark, the whole thing might collapse.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 May 2023
  • The same thing happened to Hailey Bieber in March 2022.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The best thing about smoothies is that there’s no hard and fast way to make one.
    Isabella Ubaldi, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The one thing nobody in soccer has, as a rule, is time.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s one thing that may seem small but can mean a lot to moms – cards.
    Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That's the kind of thing that gives me comfort for after I'm gone.
    Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The whole thing was designed that Louis and Natalia are the heroes of this.
    Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
  • That whole Laurel Canyon thing was just about to burst.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
  • As her uncles pack their things, one of them talks about fleeing to the south.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The tribes aren’t taking them to have them as pets or as trinkets of some past thing.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Barry was supposed to move his things out of their home on April 1.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Add insects to the quickly growing list of things DAS can spy on.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But this winter had changed how people thought about a lot of things.
    Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The one thing that people in the news business seem to know for sure is that no one knows how to save the news business.
    Becket Adams, National Review, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Most Q&As bore us—stiff, formal things full of pleasantries and PR.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2023
  • But this might just have been my path, to do different things.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
  • When this happens, the last thing anyone wants to think about is money.
    Sarita A. Mohanty, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The best thing about ordering a rug from Amazon is the streamlined process.
    Deanne Revel, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Mar. 2023

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