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Example sentences for "doing something"

  • The only thing that counts, that rules, is the chance of seeing something else, feeling something more, doing something better.

  • It was always a relief to hear the bell ring, as it afforded me an opportunity of doing something which I was yet capable of doing, to rise and open the door and stare in the countenances of the visitors.

  • Apparently they are on the eve of doing something.

  • There was a necessity of doing something.

  • The trouble with a boy is, that just as he begins to enjoy himself he is too old, and has to be set to doing something else.

  • Annie, my dear," said her mother, doing something to her dress.

  • You’d be much better out in the open air or doing something useful.

  • The night was dark and cold; Bertha slipped out of the side-door with a delightful feeling of doing something venturesome.

  • I'm afraid we're going to be drowned, Ladle, but I feel as if we ought to be doing something to try and save ourselves.

  • They feel it waste of time; they long to be doing something tangible; and yet a home atmosphere is mainly the result of the mother having acquired the art of leisure.

  • It was a great object with me at that time to be at sea; a very great object, I wanted to be doing something.

  • She came behind me under the pretence of doing something, and then she said timidly, "Miss Hester, may I speak?

  • Doing something is interesting to some if not any one is remembering that any one was one beginning doing some such thing.

  • Any one being started in doing something is going on completely doing that thing, a little doing that thing, doing something that is that thing.

  • Doing something is interesting to some, if not any one is remembering that that thing has just been done.

  • Pray, do try, that he mayn’t be doing something that we may afterward be more or less sorry for, Geta.

  • Aye, but he always was a morose old man; and now I dread nothing more, father, than that in his displeasure he’ll be doing something to him more than is justifiable.

  • With the world full of work waiting for her nimble fingers and loving heart, she is compelled to suppress all secret hope of doing something to impress her own character on that world, because her only duty is in the home.

  • Nearly all were only half-hearted Christians at the best, doing something, to be sure, but not at all alive to the grand opportunity of bringing the world to the feet of the Savior.

  • Both are working, not for daily bread or other selfish end, but for the sake of doing something useful.

  • It struck Strether into the bargain as doing something to meet the most difficult of the questions; though perhaps indeed only by substituting another.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doing something" 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:
    another quarter; another subject; dirty work; doing anything; doing everything; doing good; doing justice; doing nothing; doing something; doing things; doing well; doing work; her present; her son; his wife; hundred ways; little bits; one should; ordinary circumstances; planted himself; please myself; several thousands; sufficient quantities; swift water; that should; three chapters