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Example sentences for "things are"

  • It would be a good investment at that figure, even as things are, and besides, I should like to have that place.

  • I can never get the money as things are, and there will be a foreclosure.

  • Things are never so bad but there's hope of a mending some day.

  • Since you are not sick, dear, things are not so bad as they might be.

  • As things are, I had no business on earth to fall in love with your sister, but all the same it's what I've gone and done.

  • Also, he says that, as things are, he intends only to have a plain wedding, and then to depart.

  • Things are as strange as though we were actually living together.

  • Unfortunately, this Bwikov is a man of such choler that--Well, things are as they are.

  • Things are esteemed as they weigh in representation.

  • Potentiality is something which each half of reality reproaches the other with; things are potential to feeling because they are not life, and feelings are potential to science because they elude definition.

  • When the just functions of things are as yet not discriminated, the superlative in any direction seems naturally admirable.

  • When definite interests are recognised and the values of things are estimated by that standard, action at the same time veering in harmony with that estimation, then reason has been born and a moral world has arisen.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that necessary and eternal things are subject to the eternal law.

  • Things are changing, and we try to have our part in hastening a new order.

  • We do hope you gave notice to-day, as things are getting so bright in every direction.

  • Whether, in Prophetic Revelation, New Species of Things Are Impressed on the Prophet's Mind, or Merely a New Light?

  • I answer that, Things are ascribed to their direct causes rather than to those which merely occasion them.

  • At his age, things are sure to come right in the end.

  • It is enough, if things are so, that they will do.

  • In truth, you do not really, as things are in this country, make many people better off by adding a little or a good deal to their yearly income.

  • But his affairs have become embarrassed, or his wife and children are dead; and though still doing his duty well, and faithfully, he has lost heart and interest in these little matters; and so things are as you see.

  • Things are, on the whole, on the side of goodness.

  • They should differ in the aspect under which all outward things are regarded.

  • As things are,' says the prophet, 'it looks as if that perennial presence which Thou hast promised had been changed into visits, short and far between.

  • On the other hand, things are said to be named 'univocally' which have both the name and the definition answering to the name in common.

  • Edghill Section 1 Part 1 Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each.

  • Things are said to be named 'derivatively', which derive their name from some other name, but differ from it in termination.

  • The mind, as has been shown, has a power to abstract its ideas, and so they become essences, general essences, whereby the sorts of things are distinguished.

  • The application of our Faculties voluntary; but they being employed, we know as things are, not as we please.

  • It would be too tedious for me to tell thee here all from the first to the last; but something I shall tell thee, that thou mayest not think these things are fables.

  • The souls of most lie waste while all other things are enclosed.

  • Since, therefore, things are thus, it may be convenient here to touch a little upon these particulars.

  • As things are, I will suppress the rest of my scolding.

  • Now, however, if things are really as you hope, I will keep up my spirits, and will rely upon the hope on which you bid me rely.

  • As you say, things are as shifting (I see) in public affairs as in your letter; still, that very variety of talk and opinion has a charm for me.

  • Moral--Things are never so bad as they seem; and all difficulties sneak away when you look them squarely in the eye.

  • I am sorry I did not live in stagecoach times--things are now so dead and dreary and prosaic.

  • Things are incompatible which can not exist together in harmonious relations, and whose action when associated tends to ultimate extinction of one by the other.

  • Things are orderly when in due relation to other things; a room or desk is orderly when every article is in place; a person is orderly who habitually keeps things so.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "things are" 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 degrees; during the last years; exceedingly difficult; firmly believed; great virtue; hunting expedition; letter came; light and; locomotive engine; master mechanic; more curious; particular object; spiritual guide; things above; things according; things around; things divine; things done; things hoped; things like; things present; things stood; things went; things which; things would; yellow bird