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Example sentences for "thinking about"

  • It's not myself I'm thinking about," she said, goaded into speech.

  • Then I wakened and--I got to thinking about things, and worrying, so I could not go to sleep.

  • When you get to thinking about it, Aunt Ray, it looks bad for all three of us, doesn't it?

  • Am I thinking about what He is thinking about for me?

  • But suppose God is thinking about me all the time, and planning, with love-plans for me, and longing to give me much that He has.

  • I am all right--I just got to thinking about Father--and Sue's going.

  • Dear Chicken Little, I thought about you all the time I wasn't thinking about Alice, because I remembered a certain other wedding where the dearest small girl in the world introduced me to the dearest big girl in the world.

  • You think your father doesn't understand you; no more he does, but don't go on thinking about it.

  • He remembered Aunt Barbara's salutary remarks about crossness being the equivalent of thinking about oneself.

  • Do you mean she is thinking about England's golf ball?

  • She was to him just the exceptional being, the unique and homely manifestation a devoted mother is to the son who loves her without thinking about it; not numbered among women or even among mothers.

  • But I'll make you keep on thinking about me.

  • Could the man she had been thinking about, debating about, have slipped away while she was sitting under the plane tree?

  • Of course it takes a lot of thinking about.

  • Hans takes good care I shan't forget my face isn't my fortune; and the moment a man begins to talk about my looks, I know he's thinking about my money.

  • Why, sir, that we should be all riding and walking along here over this moor, thinking about hoeing up and raking down people and mowing 'em off, instead of enjoying ourselves like Christians?

  • What could Sir Godfrey be thinking about?

  • You don't want to be thinking about girls up here.

  • I really wasn't thinking about anything in particular," said Michael.

  • I'm thinking about marriage," said Craig, lighting a cigarette and dropping into the faded magnificence of an ex-salon chair.

  • Margaret forgot that it was there in thinking about a new dress she was planning, an adaptation of a French model.

  • That's why: just to cheer us up a bit, and set us thinking about what's next to do.

  • I keep on thinking about it and wanting to go.

  • Don't think about the other fellow, for if he's a good business man you can count on it he isn't thinking about you.

  • She isn't thinking about herself, she's thinking about others.

  • IX My dear Corydon: I have been taking a walk this morning, thinking about us, and that I had treated you fearfully.

  • This afternoon I fell to thinking about us; and thoughts which have been lurking in my mind for a long time got the upper hand for the first time.

  • Why did everybody find it necessary to be thinking about it at all?

  • Why, he has been to attend to the prisoners," I thought, and this set me thinking about them.

  • He passed his hand involuntarily straight round his neck edgewise, as if thinking about how a knife or sword would soon be applied.

  • I wasn't thinking about that, but about our poor lads.

  • I'm thinking about a valuable stack of hay I had burnt this morning; and you've give me a clue to the incendiary.

  • I want to pull my chaps, and I'm thinking about my horse.

  • If Karen's with her husband all they're likely to be thinking about is that he was right and has got her back again.

  • She was not embarrassed by conjectures as to what, after her entry of last night, Mr. Drew might be thinking about her.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinking about" 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:
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