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Example sentences for "things that"

  • He contrasted it with his room at Cambridge, which had been a jumble of things that he loved dearly and of things that he did not love at all.

  • Don't tell her foolish things about yourself--things that aren't any longer true.

  • Herbert was strictly honourable, and never pushed him into an illegal or really dangerous position; but there is no doubt that on this and on many other occasions he had to do things that he would not otherwise have done.

  • My own opinion is founded on the nature of the possibles, that is, of things that imply [235] no contradiction.

  • The question of the possibility of things that do not happen has already been examined by the ancients.

  • Let us come now to the possibility of things that do not happen, and I will give the very words of M.

  • She's always been so set in her notions and so out of the way of things that I expect we have forgotten her.

  • You see, the man who's in charge of the farm went to college to study the business, and he knows all sorts of things that make a farm pay better.

  • And now her remarkable ability to do things that required, the skilled use of her hands stood her in good stead.

  • At these words Charicles flew into a passion, and said to him: "Since you pretend to be ignorant of things that are so easily known, we forbid you to speak to the young men in any manner whatever.

  • Is it a greater piece of wisdom to sit still and do nothing, than to busy oneself in things that are of use in life, and that turn to account?

  • Besides, that noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they saw before their eyes the things that came to pass for the sins of those that were slain.

  • PrAzar 54 O all ye things that grow in the earth, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

  • Jdt 12:4 Then said Judith unto him As thy soul liveth, my lord, thine handmaid shall not spend those things that I have, before the Lord work by mine hand the things that he hath determined.

  • As, therefore, in things that are is found a certain non-being, so in things that are is found a degree of falseness.

  • Things that seem to us most solid are equally mobile.

  • Expediency, on the other hand, points to things that we may wish people to do, may praise them for doing, and despise them for not doing, while we do not consider it proper to bring in the aid of punishment.

  • The 12th enjoins the common, or the proportionable, use of things that cannot be distributed.

  • Faith discovereth the truth of things to the soul; the truth of things as they are, whether they be things that are of this world, or of that which is to come; the things and pleasures above, and also those beneath.

  • Faith will show us more excellency in things not seen, than in them that are; but unbelief sees more in things that are seen, than in things that will be hereafter;.

  • This goal to us is as a hill, From whence we plainly see Beyond this world, and take our fill Of things that lasting be.

  • Things that we receive at God's hand come to us as things from the minting house, though old in themselves, yet new to us.

  • He sat about on heaps of indescribable junk--things that go into the bowels of ships--and talked freely.

  • Things that we receive at God's hand come to us as things from the minting-house, though old in themselves, yet new to us.

  • The best of things that are of this world are some way hurtful.

  • All consociations in the other life take place according to the spheres; things that are in agreement are conjoined according to the agreement, and things that disagree are removed according to the disagreement.

  • We want our money and expect our money in this country to stop saying mean things about us, things that make us ashamed to look a true newspaper in the face, or one another in the face, and that humiliate us before the world.

  • It is always the first thing one notices about a man of genius--the incredible number of things that he manages to get done for him, apparently the things that he never takes any time off, like the rest of us, to do himself.

  • It seems as if, of course, he must be seeing things--things that we and others possibly do not and cannot see.

  • His debt has gone with his creditor, "gone glimmering through the dream of things that were," and he has no desire to recall them.

  • Just as a man who rides a great deal and never walks acquires a certain indirectness of the legs, and you never mistake a jockey for a drill-sergeant, so the web-footed beasts are not among the things that are "comely in going.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each number; early date; faltering voice; great public; marine products; measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines; mighty wind; negative charge; normal times; reading from; regenerate ones; satisfactory explanation; shall deserve; things are; things divine; things done; things hoped; things indifferent; things past; things pertaining; things seen; things that; things themselves; things were; things will; things would