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Example sentences for "something about"

  • I wish you would tell me something about yourself.

  • Oh, I don't mean for those who die, but those who are left know something about it, I imagine.

  • There is something about it all that is stranger still, I think!

  • It's something about a picture, it seems to me.

  • I had to go out of town, but I made up my mind I'd come to see you as soon as I got back, and ask you to tell me something about him.

  • When I met you that night there was something about you I couldn't account for.

  • There's something about it that takes hold of me, that carries one away.

  • You may be pretty sure it’s something about money.

  • Come, frankly, there is something about me that has repelled you?

  • There is something about you I cannot place.

  • He supposed he ought to do something about that.

  • I can't think things are as bad as you say--" "Will you really do something about it?

  • He must remember that and do something about it.

  • Then she called her mother and went and sat down by the poor little creature who now that somebody else was going to do something about it had subsided into her chair with relief born of exhaustion.

  • I learned a piece about him in school once, something about cloud-capped palaces leaving a wreck behind them, or words to that effect.

  • There is something about it all that draws one irresistibly.

  • The girls laughed and Jessie murmured something about, "That's right; keep 'em under.

  • Something about it seemed vaguely familiar, and it was on the tip of her tongue to put her thoughts into words when she dismissed the idea as absurd.

  • It seems he'd been crowded out of that thriving state by a yearning and determined milliner that had witnesses a-plenty and intended to do something about it.

  • She said she would do something about it.

  • Either you do something about this or the newspapers get the entire story.

  • Something about taking in washing--" Under less tragic circumstances, a nonsense line.

  • A: Something about it was too late in the day to be working so hard.

  • In earlier days one would have said something about 'Provadence'.

  • As Kitty says 'There's something about her' and it's not mere eyelashes.

  • Anne excused herself by saying she thought you must know something about him.

  • There's something ABOUT her, grandmamma," she said.

  • I wish you'd tell me something about my son," said Mr. Prohack.

  • Tell me something about some of your cases," said Mr. Prohack imperatively.

  • There was one other thing--something about a little girl called Ida, who is supposed to be the daughter of that old Alvah Moon who robbed your mother.

  • I suppose there is something about me now that grates on your nerves.

  • There's something about me too,' answered Margaret, 'and I cannot help caring.

  • Perhaps Aunt Kesiah can tell me something about her?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something about" 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:
    crossed the; divine mission; formal dinner; fourteen thousand; labor legislation; more commonly; mother said; right judgment; something akin; something analogous; something between; something different; something doing; something done; something extraordinary; something like; something seemed; something that; something which; something wrong; team work; that there; third century; this battle; you were; young maid