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Lexicographically close words:
thing; thinge; thinges; thingis; thingmen; thingummy; think; thinkable; thinke; thinken
  1. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy between us.

  2. Only their eyes grew wider, and there was triumph in their eyes, and it was not triumph over us, but over things we could not guess.

  3. The trees have swallowed the ruins, and the bones under the ruins, and all the things which perished.

  4. We have built strange things with this discovery of ours.

  5. We wished to know about all the things which make the earth around us.

  6. And when we look thus without words, we both know other things also, strange things for which there are no words, and these things frighten us.

  7. We shall need the days and the years ahead, to look, to learn and to understand the things of this house.

  8. We forget all men, all laws and all things save our metals and our wires.

  9. We have learned things which are not in the scripts.

  10. Such would have been our life, had we not committed our crime which has changed all things for us.

  11. The sleeping halls are white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.

  12. When questions come to puzzle us, we walk faster, then turn and forget all things as we watch the Golden One following.

  13. We were thinking that these were things without sense, but before we knew it, our body had risen in one leap.

  14. We wished to keep these things and to study them, but we had no place to hide them.

  15. The sleeping halls there were white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.

  16. In it the old things tumble, In it things new refresh us; It makes a mighty rumble,-- But peace is not so precious As that his will man shows.

  17. All great things thought created In child-like joy sprang forth and grew; All strength with goodness mated, Obeyed the child's voice true.

  18. II Honor the springtide life ever adorning, That all things has made!

  19. If things take the worse turn in there, Aid from Torgny we shall win there.

  20. She and her sister Frakark exerted an evil influence over Haakon Earl, inciting him among other things to murder his co- ruler and kinsman Magnus Erlendson.

  21. Too many things are undertaken, Too oft the task is soon forsaken.

  22. For from on high To their souls sweet strains have spoken From the wide world's harmony, Born of light, the darkness broken, In the dawn of things to be.

  23. Knowing not, in times so trying None would come but he alone, Thus he struggled, death defying, For the sacred things we own.

  24. All things I see, have eyes and have voices.

  25. The spirit of our nation's morn, The unity of free gods dreaming, And all things great to be great deeming, Forever must the spurious scorn.

  26. To think but of thee Makes so small all the small things I felt.

  27. For, all things great and noble round us streaming, I worship them, because I worship God.

  28. Do not think such shameful and monstrous things of me," said Thorir.

  29. He said to his men: "I suspect that things have taken place here such that I would give the whole island and everything that is in it for them not to have happened.

  30. Thorhall sent for some men from the next farms and let them know how things had fared.

  31. Things of that sort do not trouble me much," said Grettir.

  32. Grettir turned back, gathered up all the things which Gisli had thrown away and took them home.

  33. Now we must both depart together; for we ourselves know best about many things which have happened since we first met.

  34. Many things might be told of the dealings between the bishop's men and the Northerners, which, however, do not belong to this saga.

  35. It is strange conduct to say shameful things of innocent men.

  36. Grim told Grettir of many things that had been done in Midfjord in the North during his absence, and that no blood-money had been paid for Atli.

  37. Now, Grettir, there are two things for you to choose between.

  38. Grettir said to the berserks: "Give me all the things which you want to lay aside, your weapons and your wet clothes, for the men will not obey us while they are frightened.

  39. Guard yourselves against witchcraft, for few things are stronger than the ancient spells.

  40. Grettir said he had a mind to go to Thorhallsstad and see how things were.

  41. Atli had taken over all the management of the farm and the goods, and things went much better, for he was both obliging and provident.

  42. Thorbjorn Slowcoach was there and many things were talked about.

  43. A small thing only," she said, "yet maybe the signal of greater things to come.

  44. If he elected to let things be, then Bignold would die out there in the Gulch, starved, anguished, and alone.

  45. These two men knew each other; they had said hard things to each other for many a year, yet they lived on together unshaken by each other's moods and bitternesses.

  46. She was not agitated outwardly, but within there was that fire which burns up life and hope and all the things that come between us and great issues.

  47. That was the feelin' among 'em--what was the good of making things worse!

  48. While she was out here at Lumley's getting cured, accordin' to the doctor's orders, things seemed to get a move on in the West.

  49. She was beginning to get control of herself again, was trying hard to keep things on the surface.

  50. Consciousness came at last with half delirium, half understanding; as emerging from the passing sleep of anaesthetics, the eye sees things and dimly registers them, before the brain has set them in any relation to life or comprehension.

  51. Sometime shall the veil between The things that are and that might have been Be folded back for our eyes to see, And the meaning of all shall be clear to me.

  52. Things was pretty warm there, too, Cassy," he said, with a sidelong look at his father.

  53. His father had put it all down to Cassy Mavor, who had unsettled things since she had come to Lumley's, and being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.

  54. The streets of Jansen were washed with flood, and the green and gold things of garden and field and harvest crumbled beneath the sheets of rain.

  55. Dolph brooded long upon these things and dreamed of them in bed.

  56. Caverns have frequently been used as hiding-places for things of more or less value--generally less.

  57. And you, king and queen of the May, have you no better things to think about than fiddling and dancing?

  58. These things may hold water, but they can't hold men and women.

  59. The twain were set a-sneezing by the fumes of sulphur, and Rooney swore afterwards that there were little things at the end of the yard with grinning faces and lights on the ends of their tails.

  60. In one of their long rambles they found themselves beside the Tennessee River at a point where the current swirls among rocks and sucks down things that float, discharging them at the surface in still water, down the stream.

  61. If she got the money he would try to get a share of it, and if the devil took away his helpmate--well, there were things that he had made his mind to endure, when he had to.

  62. Dolph reflected, next morning, that these things had been ordered to bring together the two branches of the family and disclose the whereabouts of the treasure that it should inherit.

  63. One day, as the couple were floating in their shallop of bark on the calm lake, idly enjoying the sunshine and saying pretty things to each other, the Manitou arose among the mountains.

  64. Now, whether there be anything diabolical in these things I know not, but this I know, that God Almighty is to be seen and trembled at in what has been often heard among us.

  65. The British authorities, however, caught three of the swashbucklers and strung them up on Gibbet Island, and things that went on badly in Communipaw after that went on with quiet and secrecy.

  66. She also knew things that she had not known a week ago.

  67. I sent him some very nice things to eat; I don't know if he liked them, for he sent no message back.

  68. Sabre and lance and bullets were things he understood, but he did not understand ropes.

  69. Jack Marche heard of these things but saw little of them.

  70. Such things are always your right--if you care to use it.

  71. In my half-sleep I tell her things--little intimate things that she must know.

  72. The astonishing lot of garbage they used to make the ground you stand on is bad enough, but with the things you've thrown out added to it the situation is exasperating.

  73. I'm sifting top soil to make our garden right, and my wife is doing wonderful things inside the house with the furniture and fixings.

  74. And yet this plain young tale of plain things could not be told in the third person, since it is a mere setting down of real experience, painfully truthful and laboriously pruned where imagination was tempted to stray into fields of fiction.

  75. There are some things that make the average man feel cheap, if he has pride.

  76. When things lightened up on the labor end we would begin to notice it.

  77. One of the reasons women may not vote is that they say just such foolish things as that!

  78. You see, he is a one-idea man, and the idea may not be his own; but the fellow with the genius for starting things is very seldom there at the finish.

  79. In making our lawn those are the things they didn't do.

  80. Then it was this thing and that thing, never finishing anything, until finally I chucked all things and started something new.

  81. Then my wife got a mania for economizing, and it was Uncle Henry on a high chair under every individual set of lights, tickling the little flat black key things into a subdued quiescence.

  82. The first morning I awoke with a start, leaped out of bed, shed my pajamas and grabbed for the things on the chair.

  83. There were other things I overlooked, but we decided to let it go at that.

  84. Still more unfavourable than in Phrygia was the aspect of things for the Romans on the north coast of Asia Minor.

  85. Taken as a whole, the agitation was aimless; and we discern in it the perplexity of its authors to find an object for their activity, for it turned almost wholly on things already essentially settled or on subordinate matters.

  86. And I declare, the Heavens will reward you; and as to me, I will be thankful for what I get, and submissive to delays and to all things: all things are good compared with flat want in that respect.

  87. I prayed them immediately to dispose of these things by auction, or at their trade sales, at whatever prices would sell them, and leave the market open for W.

  88. My Wife read it; but I was away, with far other things in my head; and it was "lent to various persons" till it died!

  89. All things are breaking up here, like Swedish Frost in the end of March; gachis epouvantable.

  90. I wrote you in April or May an account of the new state of things which the cheap press has wrought in our book market, and specially what difficulties it put in the way of our edition of Past and Present.

  91. The following passages from Emerson's Diary relating to Past and Present seem to have been written a few days after the preceding letter:--"How many things this book of Carlyle gives us to think!

  92. In my much writing I believe I have left the chief things unsaid.

  93. May you live forever, and may your reports of men and things be accessible to me whilst I live!

  94. Quod faustum sit:--or indeed I do not much care whether it be faustum or not; I grow to care about an astonishingly small number of things as times turn with me!

  95. But no; we must think much better things than these.

  96. We managed at last to fasten up the mattress with the other things in it, tied by a long scarf at each end, and dragging it to the top of the stairs we rolled it down each flight.

  97. We did not take things by any means so quietly.

  98. Even to her stepmother and little sisters, whom she did not love, she was never unkind, though she lived entirely apart, and kept her own little court separately at the Louvre, and very odd things we did there.

  99. She at least knows how things go in England.

  100. In those days, Clement Darpent was sad enough at heart, but he did not quite despair of his country, though things were getting worse and worse.

  101. He had so far prevailed that Beaufort muttered something about not knowing things had gone so far, and assured the magistrates round him of his protection.

  102. Things were quiet that night, but every one knew that it was only a lull in the storm.

  103. I forgot how things had been broken up in England.

  104. I do not know how it was, but peace always went away with her; and my mother did things she never attempted when the real lady of the house was at home.

  105. My brother said things did indeed remind him of the rusty old weapons that were taken down at the beginning of the Rebellion.

  106. He loved, not with apples, not roses, nor locks of hair, but with fatal frenzy; and all things else he held but trifles by the way.

  107. It seemed the loveliness of things Did teach him all their use, For, in mere weeds, and stones, and springs He found a healing power profuse.

  108. If fewer things were dispatched, especially in the study of literature, and if more were intrusted to the memory, there would be something to assimilate and time to assimilate it; there would be less dyspepsia and more muscle.

  109. The palace of Oceanus was beyond the limits of the bountiful earth,[58] surrounded by gardens and all things fair.

  110. This Thracian bard is said to have taught mysterious truths concerning the origin of things and the immortality of the soul.

  111. Oh, whence has silence stolen on all things here, Where every sight makes music to the eye?

  112. The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise, What was thy pity's recompense?

  113. Balder is dead, and Hela holds her prey, But will restore, if all things give him tears.

  114. But Minerva, appearing in the form of a young shepherd, informed him where he was, and told him the state of things at his palace.

  115. The faddists have produced some extraordinary things in the way of literature, but nothing more freakish has made its appearance in the last half-century than The Lark.

  116. Well, when they'd eat all the candy they could, They loaded their house with things up good.

  117. The pictures and rhymes in The Lark rank with the most remarkable things done for children since the days of Mother Goose.

  118. Among other things he brought home sixty barrels of flour and eight barrels of salt.

  119. Mr. Hoatling was then our best friend and helped me get my things over to this store building.

  120. The streams were full of fish, but we could not enjoy any of these things without salt.

  121. You always had to be careful when weighing things for Indians, for if you got over the quantity and took some out they were always grouchy as they thought you were cheating them.

  122. As I walked along the one street in Stillwater with its few houses, I saw a blacksmith shop with the smith settin' and smokin' and stopped to look things over.

  123. A few of the men who were left thought that we had better pack a few of our best things and go to Leeche's old stone building for protection.

  124. These things were traded for goods and groceries.

  125. For months afterwards arrow heads and other things which they had dropped in their flight were found about the place.

  126. I thought them the prettiest things I had ever seen and probably they were, for we had little.

  127. He got to hewing things and finally hewed a piece about a foot long out of the corner of that red brick house making it look very queer.

  128. The road was full of things we wanted with us.

  129. One lady was so scared that she dropped her traveling basket and all the most sacred things of the toilet rolled out.

  130. I never used any of them for the things here were much more up to date.

  131. Among other things she bought a bag of rice flour which was all the flour in our colony until April of the next year.

  132. Entering, I saw my little two year old boy standing by the Indian's side playing with the things in his belt while the Indian carefully held the baby in his arms.

  133. We sat opposite to each other for a little time in awkward silence; a hundred things rushed to my lips, but I had not courage to say them, and I waited vainly till he should address me.

  134. There are some things to do," I said, vacantly, delaying without any purpose in the delay.

  135. There are greater things in this world than marrying, or giving in marriage.

  136. Do even such as you, with youth, and wealth, and everything that heart can desire, make the best always of the good things God gives them?

  137. I could see the tears dropping on the things as she put them in; but she did not make a complaint or a remonstrance.

  138. I was constantly sending to Cambridge for things which I thought would please her; for Flora's sake I began to collect a little aviary; for Flora's sake I sent far and near for rare flowers.

  139. Mamma has so many things to do, she seldom gets any time to help me," continued the girl, rallying a little after a pause.

  140. Now and then in my life, I have found out suddenly, in a moment, of how little importance external things were to me.

  141. Here will call me a brute, And Pallas say things most unpleasant, Aphrodite--won't she give me beans!

  142. All things served me then," she continued; "the disasters of the monarchy and its ruin helped me to bury myself.

  143. Such cruel things can be confided to none but God or to one who seems to us very near Him--a priest, or another self.

  144. Be assured that where, as you say, other women are common and vulgar, you can only seem distinguished; your manner of saying things would make a cook-book interesting.

  145. Until two o'clock in the morning they spent their time in saying to each other the silly things that women of genius, like the princess, know how to make adorable.

  146. She was still surrounded by beautiful things which recalled her former existence.

  147. I have lost everything; I have no illusions left; I had tasted of all things except the one fruit for which I have no longer teeth.

  148. A man of your genius must surely comprehend many things that bewilder fools but are none the less true; indeed I may go further and call them justifiable through difference of characters, temperaments, attachments, situations.

  149. Men have so little faith in things of this kind; they think themselves so little bound to be discreet!

  150. There are some things which a man cannot bear even from his brother.

  151. People tell me such things are common in England, but I would have starved rather than have been mixed up in such a transaction, even in the smallest way, and with property that was bona fide my own.

  152. How could she speak of such petty things as money and fortune then!

  153. He hastily added: "But they had many things against them.

  154. Pondering over all these things during the solitary drive, her good resolutions faded out from her, and her heart began to burn anew.

  155. You took away my gay childish heart, and yet in all humiliating things you still treat me like a child.

  156. It is of small moment on which side lies the wealth;--love makes all things even.

  157. But I know I am a very foolish, romantic old maid, and view these things in a different light to most people.

  158. So so; such things must be, and I, though a bachelor myself, have no right to forbid marriages.

  159. Her simplicity in worldly things was so extreme that even Nathanael passed it over as impossible.

  160. There are more things in life than mere marrying and being happy.

  161. It was a strange long day at Kingcombe Holm; many things to be arranged, many questions to be parried, many prying eyes to be avoided.

  162. Oh tutors and parents, there are such things as asses in the world.

  163. Pon my word," cried Harry with a laugh, "things are improving.

  164. Mrs Van Heldre, "I believe you learn up rude things to say.

  165. Because I like to do things in my own way.

  166. I shall soon get right again, and you shall have all these things a dozen times over.

  167. While I'm gone I should feel obliged if you would keep an eye on my cottage; one way and another there are quite a couple of pounds' worth of things up yonder which I should not like to have stolen.

  168. You are right, it is no time for thinking of such things as that.

  169. As he says, if you go to sell the things at a respectable place they'll ask all manner of questions that it is not convenient to answer, and we must not risk detection by doing that.

  170. Yes, bad things headaches, Mr Harry," said the old man returning.

  171. Get a few things together, and let's go at once.

  172. Now listen to him, what hard things he can say, Master Leslie, when I'm asking for a little in a bottle to keep in the cupboard for medicine.

  173. Uncle Luke gave the table a thump which made the tea-things rattle, and Leslie started from his seat, gazing wildly at the officer, who smiled rather triumphantly.

  174. Begging at my brother's place for food and things every time I've been there.

  175. I am an old man, and at my time of life I can be calm and dispassionate, and look on at things judicially.

  176. Many explain this by the heathen use of the palm as the emblem of victory, and they quote the declaration: "In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

  177. All these things are passing away, and are therefore unworthy of the supreme place in our hearts.

  178. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

  179. Let the most important things have the first attention.

  180. It is in the nature of things that love should beget love, and that the love thus originated should be measured by the extent of the favour which has been shown.

  181. Paul says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

  182. Christian joy is an inheritance closely fenced around; and hard as it seems to enjoy any good things in which others cannot share, we must say, "Unbelieving men and women, it is not for you.

  183. For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.

  184. Certainly not all that we sometimes wish to know; but then we sometimes wish to know things the knowledge of which would be useless, or curious, or beyond our reach until we can see with tearless eyes, and realise with sinless hearts.

  185. If we could not believe in the love that He hath towards us, the thought of this would be a dark sorrow; but, assured of His love as we may be, we can also be assured that He will do all things well.

  186. The morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

  187. Men sometimes object that we put before them hard and abstruse systems of theology, and that we condemn them for not believing things which they cannot understand.

  188. Man's intelligence can do many wonderful things, but God Himself must come to our help if we are ever to know the things that pertain to our salvation.

  189. One cannot know some things when one is very young.

  190. How feverishly busy everything was that morning, and how seriously all living things took the annual dawn of life.

  191. Ah, my dear, when one grows up, letters mean other things besides invitations and presents.

  192. From behind me as I rose came strongly in a soft breeze all the perfumes of the sweet things then in flower, and as I passed out of the cloisters my last vision was the mead of narcissi nodding softly in the night wind.

  193. After all, I know no better or more blessed things than simple faith, and a noble life, ended by His supreme grace.

  194. If you were in France, you wouldn't like to hear rude things said about England, or English people.

  195. All the pleasant things of spring and summer were before us.

  196. Great Princes may add statues and such things for state and magnificence," wrote Bacon; "but beyond these things is the true pleasure of a garden.

  197. It may not be actually correct, but it can give the soul and the life of things remembered, even through the mist of years.

  198. You should call things by their proper name, Hals.

  199. When things aren't true, Miss Weldon says, you should rise above such considerations, and take no notice.

  200. What funny little prim things they were with their bonnets of gold, and their frills of emerald green.

  201. In that exalted moment all things seemed possible, and though his body limped as haltingly he followed on behind his new-found friend, his spirit walked erect, and faced his future for the time, undaunted.

  202. A goodly rosary, symbol of all the things for which he should be glad, was in his hand at close of day.

  203. It is easier to indicate the different shades of national improvement, and the point towards which intellectual development tends, than to compare and class things which cannot all be considered under one point of view.

  204. It is probable that this state of things will change very slowly.

  205. Some of these words express things not unknown before the discovery of the New World, and scarcely recall to our minds at present their barbarous origin.

  206. He gravely assured us that this order of things could not be changed on any pretence, and that the Indians, who prefer a state of nudity to the slightest clothing, are in no hurry for their turn in the destination of the funds.

  207. This state of things was so much the more vexatious to me as from the nature of my constitution I never was subject to sea-sickness, and feel an extreme ardour for study during the whole time I am at sea.

  208. The observations which have been made on the grouping of volcanoes in America, prove that the ancient state of things represented in the conjectural map of the Atlantic by M.

  209. One of the noted things that took place in those autumn days was the marriage of Mr. Gideon Holister Pond and Miss Sarah Poage.

  210. By all these things we remember the old adobe church at Lac-qui-parle.

  211. At the time of our arrival he had made things look quite civilized.

  212. Many things she seemed to learn intuitively.

  213. Our tent and bedding and such things as we must have on the journey were strapped on the horses.

  214. Hardly had the new order of things been inaugurated, in 1861, when Superintendent Clark W.

  215. During this time there were some things transpired which deserve to be noticed.

  216. In fact, it was chiefly apparent in "strengthening the things that remain.

  217. The mind sees the things or the events vividly, but the surroundings are dim and uncertain.

  218. Doubtless the advantage in speaking a language is with those who learn in their very childhood, other things being equal.

  219. One of the last things he did was to look over his old Dakota hymns, revised by J.

  220. Among the new things that took place in Beloit in the year 1866 was the marriage of Hapan and Hapistinna, the one starting off for the far-off land of the Celestials, so-called, and the other to the frontier of Minnesota.

  221. The renewal of acquaintance, taking the bearings of one another's whereabouts in mental and spiritual advance, is more through chit-chat and incidental revelations than in any of the things that can be told.

  222. Other things were arranged in their respective places, the team hitched to the conveyance, and in a little more than an hour from the time of stopping they were again journeying onward.

  223. I shall never have any children, that such things are not for such a dishcloth as I!

  224. There are things which cannot be expressed, although the heart is bursting.

  225. He does not foresee anything--I see only the logic of things which is favorable to me, and I shall not be stupid enough to place any obstacles to my happiness.

  226. Without going back to the past, I can tell you that pride is your greatest fault, and if it were not for that pride, many sad things would not have happened.

  227. Therefore the picture is false, the truth twisted, because in nature the true relation of things is different.

  228. Indeed it is the general harbour of fraud and of folly, of duplicity and of impertinence; and I wish few things more fervently, than that you may have taken a lasting leave of it.

  229. Why, all my things are spoilt; and what's worse, my sacque was as good as new.

  230. And as to my dancing with Mr. Smith, you may see wonderfuller things than that any day in the week.

  231. And here I conclude my London letters,-and without any regret; for I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where everything is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

  232. But on the contrary, he told me, he was very glad I would sit still, as he had a million of things to say to me.


  233. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessory; appanage; apparatus; apparel; appendage; appliance; appointments; appurtenances; armament; attire; belongings; caparison; chattel; clothes; conveniences; dealings; dress; duds; duffel; effect; effects; equipage; equipment; facilities; facility; fitting; fixture; furnishings; furniture; gear; good; harness; impedimenta; installation; livery; luggage; machinery; materiel; movables; munitions; outfit; paraphernalia; perquisite; plant; plumbing; plunder; possession; raiment; rig; rigging; stuff; tackle; thing; things; togs; trappings; turnout; utensil; wardrobe


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    things above; things according; things are; things around; things divine; things done; things existing; things hoped; things indifferent; things like; things must; things past; things pertaining; things present; things seen; things spiritual; things stood; things that; things themselves; things went; things were; things which; things will; things would