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Example sentences for "something which"

  • But a man is not a thing, that is to say, something which can be used merely as means, but must in all his actions be always considered as an end in himself.

  • Accordingly it is something which is considered neither as am object of inclination nor of fear, although it has something analogous to both.

  • Indeed, there can be no crime which is not founded upon the depriving others of something which belongs to them.

  • There is something which must be explained.

  • In that last look of despair his eyes caught sight of something which at once gave him renewed hope.

  • When I saw him last he gave me something which be said he had worn around his neck for years.

  • Tears started to his eyes; yet over his brow there came something which is not generally associated with tears--a lofty, exultant expression, an air of joy and peace.

  • It was a sort of apoplectic stroke, brought on by something which he had eaten.

  • There was something unreal about the whole scene, something which I was never able afterwards to focus absolutely in my mind as a whole, although disjointed parts of it were always present in my thoughts.

  • There seems something unfriendly in the very atmosphere, something which depresses me, which makes me feel as though there were evil times coming.

  • There is something which I mean to say to you.

  • Kirkwood stepped out of the gateway and sheered off as Hobbs picked himself up; something which he did rather slowly, as if in a daze, without comprehension of the cause of his misfortune.

  • The latter pulled up and Kirkwood started to charge him with instructions; something which he did haltingly, hampered by a slight haziness of purpose.

  • Convinced, he blushed for himself; something which served to make him more tongue-tied than ever.

  • Once in a boxing bout Mark Twain got a blow on the nose which caused it to swell to an unusual size and shape.

  • He became so enthusiastic presently that he wanted to take Howells with him on a trip down the Mississippi, with their wives for company, to go over the old ground again and obtain added material enough for a book.

  • It is one of the striking things about our relation to spiritual truth that we can go on for long thinking that we are attaching a meaning to something which in fact, it turns out, has meant almost nothing to us.

  • It may be that it is a goodness that is seen chiefly in offers, in opportunities to be something which we have declined or have only imperfectly realized.

  • He talks of it as something quite external to himself, almost as something which he has never personally come across.

  • What justification is there, then, for the assumption of the existence in the living matter of a something which has no representative, or correlative, in the not living matter which gave rise to it?

  • And here is something which makes it very curious indeed.

  • Because I think that it must be something very important, something which couldn't easily be hidden anywhere else.

  • Something which wouldn't sink of itself; something which needed to be helped with stones before it would hide itself safely in the mud.

  • He was going to do something which he didn't want me to hear.

  • His flashy Italian passion for his half-sister was real enough to make one uncomfortable: something he wanted and would have in spite of his own soul, something which fundamentally he did not want.

  • So that there is something which is unknown to me and which nevertheless exists.

  • It is something which I, the microcosm, am not.

  • The rest, that is not me, is nothing, it is something which is nothing.

  • I gave it something which cured it of its eruption, and through good treatment it soon lost its other ailments and began to look sleek and bonny.

  • The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously.

  • Something which is insidious or deceptive.

  • Also, we are all very clever at getting what we want, and the dream secures for us, in a way, something which we want very much indeed and which the world of social restraint or our own warped childish notion denies us.

  • It may be that the first step is simply getting a true conception of physical fatigue as something which needs to be feared only in case of a diseased body, and which is quite likely to disappear under a little judicious neglect.

  • Nevertheless there is something to be done,--something which is as definite and scientific as a prescription or a surgical operation.

  • But the good of mankind is not a something which is absolute and fixed for all men, whatever their capacities or state of civilization.

  • You tell me you were afraid I might persuade you to become my wife--something which, for some inexplicable reason, you claim is impossible.

  • He shrugged: that was her own look-out--if she were sincere in asserting that she meant to leave Paris; something which he took the liberty of doubting.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something which" 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:
    candle power; descriptive poetry; education and; gain over; good meal; kindled against; many hours; slavery people; something akin; something between; something beyond; something doing; something done; something else; something extraordinary; something for; something foreign; something good; something like; something real; something resembling; something that; something wrong; upper side; what becomes; your heart