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Example sentences for "thinking only"

  • Thinking only of themselves, they reck little of the future, which, at a later time, weighs on the mother of a family.

  • He had been selfish, thinking only of himself.

  • If, thinking only of the rabbits, you prohibited steel rabbit-traps, then you condemned all these worthy people to slow starvation.

  • Who is happier than the lover, thinking only how to serve?

  • Such a conception of the artist as a good workman, thinking only of the perfection of his craft, was not without an element of greatness.

  • He called himself to task, and thought himself a glutton, thinking only of his stomach.

  • Several times we halted in the hope that the reptiles, thinking only of overtaking us, might come up within shooting distance; but they were too wary to be caught by any trick of that kind.

  • And when in it, he paid no attention to the wise counsels of his friend, but ran hither and thither, thinking only of his beloved.

  • So he went home, and abandoning his occupation of catching fish, he took to his bed, and refused to eat, thinking only on the princess.

  • When the good Ratnavali said this, her father and mother comforted her, and she remained there, thinking only of her husband.

  • How grand, how noble he seemed in his utter self-abnegation--thinking only of her and of the comfort that he might manage to throw around her broken life!

  • But he is in love, and that may happen even to a man who is thinking only of a career.

  • Therefore I am thinking only of the will case.

  • This he said, thinking only of the boy-time obligation voluntarily assumed; but it was quite inevitable that Ardea should mistake the motive.

  • That odious Sister Winifred waiting for your death, thinking only of her school.

  • She had said these things, but how differently she had acted, forgetful of God, thinking only of Evelyn, and her vows, and not a little of the woman herself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    animated nature; century after; constant stream; curious feeling; draw back; ever occur; forest fires; gold ornaments; having married; inductive science; least two; member when; necessary being; often very; other business; small talk; sought for; sweet heart; thinking about; thinking aloud; thinking being; thinking only; thinking that; thinking what; though late; though possessed