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Example sentences for "different thing"

  • That's a different thing entirely," said the keeper.

  • A Different Thing Entirely= While surveying the west coast of Scotland, Captain Robinson had received on board his ship the Grand Duke Constantine.

  • Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing!

  • He is just as superior as ever;--but being married, you know, it is quite a different thing.

  • To those who had no resources it was a different thing; but my resources made me quite independent.

  • If they were all like our good old vicar, whom I would take to-morrow if he asked me, it would be quite a different thing; but they are not.

  • Brothers and sisters all wished to talk about John and John's trouble, but to talk to him in his grief and humiliation was a different thing.

  • Yes, it is a different thing," and Elizabeth laid down the piece of linen she was stitching and looked up at the handsome fellow who was leaning against the open window and puffing his cigar smoke out of it.

  • But then you are a girl--that is such a different thing.

  • Sir Libeaus--Le Beau Desconnu, the Fair Knight unknown--is a different thing.

  • The ballad of Hynd Horn may be derived from an older narrative poem, but it is not a corruption of any old narrative; it is a different thing, in a lyrical form which has a value of its own.

  • It is a different thing to invent and carry on an allegorical story.

  • They can crawl along out on the plain without making more noise than a snake would do, but that is a different thing to climbing up among bush and rock in the dark.

  • It is a different thing altogether, though proceeding probably from the brain.

  • When they are a little older they know they are old enough to know that age is a different thing than it has been.

  • It is a different thing to the one being that one, quite a different thing.

  • Suppose it has a different color, suppose it has a black color, does it make any difference in describing, does it even make any difference in recognising a different thing together, does it even show when it is handsome.

  • It is easy to say happiness, but enjoying it is a different thing.

  • Yes, but loving a man is a different thing to loving a woman.

  • But lust is a different thing altogether; my chaste soul could not forgive such a sin, and I declare open war against it.

  • Now with property it is a different thing--money is the parent of money, and by money a state becomes powerful and prosperous.

  • But it is quite a different thing to govern.

  • It's a different thing though, after you've been used to them," she answered.

  • Of course, if they cannot trust him, it is a different thing.

  • And death looks such a different thing now!

  • If it came to fighting my countrymen in the streets of Paris, that would be a different thing.

  • Had I been a soldier, I might have invaded the Bank at the head of a regiment; but, to go and ask my former chief for a million or so as a matter of course, was a different thing, and I had not the moral courage.

  • Julia; "but cleverness is quite a different thing.

  • Oh, that is quite a different thing--not but what he is a torment sometimes; but I do not want to talk about them now.

  • It is a different thing having a few friends in the house, to whom we are desirous of showing a little attention, and giving such a party as you mention.

  • But it is a different thing reading of such a conflict in a book, and hearing it from lips pallid with the meaning of the words they uttered, and a heart which was about to prove its sincerity by voluntary pangs more hard than death.

  • It is quite a different thing now,' said Violet.

  • If she had been a day older it would have been a different thing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "different thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different ages; different animals; different character; different climates; different colors; different colour; different denominations; different directions; different epochs; different from; different kinds; different modes; different order; different parts; different people; different places; different seasons; different size; different sorts; different substances; different varieties; different view; different wave; differential equations; sweet cousin; was afraid