How to Use this and that in a Sentence

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• Naylor said he’s learned a little of this and that from all of them.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• Yes, more music, yes more effects, yes, more this and that.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
• Our temples were pounding, and our hearts were hurting, and this and that and the other.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2023
• So there is a real readiness impact to all of this and that concerns me.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2023
• Everything kind of revolved around the fact that Ed’s going to be there and do this and that and paint arrows in the roads. ...
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2022
• Pokémon cards and Little Mermaid this and that, stuff their own kids had at home.
  — Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• So luckily for us, there’s only one way from this and that’s up.
  — Cliff Brunt, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2025
• In 1989, Hanks made this and that dog movie … and then wisely moved in a whole new direction.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
• There were all these articles from the time about how it was decorated and this and that.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• There are a lot of criteria on governance, on this and that, and a lot of procedures.
  — Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2013
• Eisner is president of a sports team, a network, studios, this and that.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• My brother and my dad are helping me, paying that amount of money for my practice, paying for this and that.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• All sorts of specialists can tell you about limitations for this and that.
  — Maggie Kreienberg, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
• The game is going to move more, there’s going to be more action, there’s going to be some quirky taking advantage of this and that.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Hilarity then ensued in the form of mini one-on-one fights between this and that player.
  — Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 7 Aug. 2024
• Collage is a scrappy medium, put together with this and that.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• Many teams can easily just break and start pointing finger, blaming each other for this and that.
  — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025
• Much more of this and that toxicity in the stands will only intensify, adding a difficult bump in the road to Brighton’s route up the table.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
• The dish is centered around a fort-like construction of Japanese-style honey toast, garrisoned with ice cream, mango, sticky rice, roti bread and a drizzle of this and that.
  — Stuart Melling, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Our pediatrician came to meet Riley the day after he was born and assured us that a lot of babies go through this and that Riley would make progress and come home to us.
  — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
• Mushrooms for this and that Mushrooms of Utah caters to the casual hobbyist and serious mushroom hunter alike.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
• And the fact that so many Republicans voted for this and that Kevin McCarthy behaved like a normal politician, horse trading.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• After three decades of existential this and that, the climate-change campaigners may have finally found a bridge too far.
  — Kent Lassman, National Review, 15 Nov. 2022
• Oh, God—and this and this and that and the other out there somewhere, way out there and way up there.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• At the quarterback, people want to make storylines and all these things about the next guy and this and that.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
• Stews that accommodate this and that.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
• This is not going to work structurally, this and that.
  — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
• And whenever there's a human element, there's going to be mess-ups and this and that.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
• Drinking sugar, adding sugar, this and that.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Timmons maintains not all friendships are primed for this and that’s ok.
  — Essence, 5 Sep. 2025