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Example sentences for "things like"

  • They would exclaim: "But we can't do things like this to one another!

  • All the thoughts of him being crushed dreadfully or being mutilated or lying and screaming--or things like that--they've gone.

  • If reasonableness counted for anything in things like that, it was a pretty good plan.

  • She simply mustn't let herself think of things like that.

  • She'll let you practise bathing them and things like that, and certainly no one would object to your wheeling them out in the pram.

  • You see, mother brought us all up on the Social Contract and The Age of Reason, things like that, and I didn't put it down because .

  • Well, things like that I would just very likely throw in the wastebasket; that's all.

  • Sights rifles and mounts scopes and things like that.

  • And I told him I thought he was too young to get involved in things like this, selling tickets for Cuba and all this stuff.

  • Thomas are incompetent as leaders of industry because they do not see that Labour is full of men who can do things like this.

  • An immense house stuck all over with a parcel of chimneys, or things like chimneys; little brick columns, with a sort of caps on them, looking like carnation sticks, with caps at the top to catch the earwigs.

  • True, you were born under a Kingly Government; and so was I as well as you; but I was not born under Six-Acts; nor was I born under a state of things like this.

  • People shouldn't do things like that to their Sovereign," she said in a muffled voice.

  • It's things like that we're interested in," he said, and spent the next twenty minutes slowly approaching his subject.

  • I didn't mean the phone," he said, "or letters or things like that.

  • They like fixed-up things like this, and it certainly does give anyone an appetite.

  • Then supper will be served by candlelight; it will consist of things like sandwiches, cider, coffee, nuts and cookies.

  • You see, my wife thinks of things like that--a good dinner and saving gas, too!

  • If any one paid attention to things like this--why, no one would be safe!

  • A fellow always feels upset by things like this," said he.

  • He was always close about details or confidences in things like that," proceeded Dennison.

  • We hear lots of things like that," said he, resentfully.

  • I never did hold anything in, you know what I mean, things like that.

  • He talked about rocks and ore and things like that, and I enjoyed talking to him.

  • She did tell me that she told Robert to come right home from school and things like that, because she thought it would be safer than being outside playing, but I don't know exactly when it was she was telling me that.

  • For instance there's one woman who at present is about the social model for the town; well, her father was the first public ash man--things like that.

  • I'd rather be the slave I am at present than be able to do things like that.

  • After all, a fellow couldn't do things like that--drive helpless cattle like these to certain injury, even possible death.

  • She was afraid of it, she was even ashamed of it; she and Lloyd had never talked about--things like that.

  • She doesn't; she isn't the kind that thinks of things like that.

  • Chalmers was, and what was her connection with Shanesville, with Mrs. Doherty, how long she had lived there at Covent Street, things like that.

  • Girls couldn’t do things like this; things like masquerading and snatching things off people’s mantels were for men to do.

  • I didn’t know you could do things like this.

  • I’ve read of things like that,” admitted Chub, when she had explained her ideas.

  • If you think I'm going to be told to do things like this--" I began.

  • But I think, in a way, things like that do harm.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "things like" 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:
    dinner party; enough cold; false teachers; glass painting; hill and down dale; lead pencil; like they; lost their; necessary that; royal prince; thick weather; things above; things around; things divine; things done; things existing; things must; things pertaining; things present; things stood; things that; things were; things which; things would; thou whose; vice premier