How to Use something else in a Sentence

something else

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  • For two, the Celtics could still have something else up their sleeves.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • But there was something else there, a push or need to perform …for her parents.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 30 June 2026
  • There’ll be something else to keep the crooked numbers away, don’t worry.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Each decision was not only a choice to include something but a choice to exclude something else.
    Lonnie G. Bunch Iii, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • While nibbling deer and pesky rodents might require one approach, something else, like snakes, will require another.
    Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 3 July 2026
  • Aviation experts say jet fuel prices have fallen sharply in recent months, but something else is keeping airfares high.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • Tang believes that as intelligence becomes abundant, something else becomes scarce.
    C.m. Rubin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Rather than settle for something else, the Minnesota mom decided to build the furniture herself.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • Like the majority of players, Korneeva is familiar with playing in testing climates, but this heat was something else.
    Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Today's understanding will be commoditized, too, and something else (agency, trust, taste, human accountability) will be what's left to win on.
    Abe Ankumah, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Barreled bourbon stored for a decade has become something else entirely, something that brands, bottlers, and collectors may be willing to pay substantially more to acquire.
    William Jones, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • But when the pool recently turned green as a result of algae blooms, and its just-finished paint job began to peel away, the Reflecting Pool became a symbol of something else.
    Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • Jinkx Monsoon, Bettie Gilpin, John Cameron Mitchell – each new Mary comes in already famous for something else.
    Katie North, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • But Eller, who signed a one-year, $850,000 deal with the Panthers last week, said there’s something else about this signing, about this move, that feels different.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
  • However, finding dead or dying honeybees with such consistency is an indication that something else is responsible.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
  • An agent rerouting a supply chain, approving a transaction, or reprioritizing a customer escalation based on faulty assumptions is something else entirely.
    Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • For Lara Bakhour, Victoria Richani, Elena Zreik and Geoffrey Laklak, the view comes with something else.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

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