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.
  • All things point the right way.
    — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • His view of things hasn’t changed.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Curbed, 22 June 2026
  • So just lots of things to look at.
    — AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
  • And that’s very much a good thing.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Are canopies and awnings the same thing?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
  • One more thing to scratch off the list.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • Don’t let the bad things get to you.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The whole thing is built to move fast.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • So there’s a lot of things have changed.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2025
  • There is no such thing as a bad child.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • The steal was a sign of things to come.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • And that’s how the whole thing came about.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Best ways to get around things like that?
    — AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
  • Let go of things that have held you back.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026
  • So, there are some things to work out here.
    — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There's a lot of things that can go wrong.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • In the long run, that might be a good thing.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The one thing that could go wrong did go wrong.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Trump, at this point, was over the whole thing.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But to do both of those things in the same game?
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025

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