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Example sentences for "thousand things"

  • Julie and Emmanuel have a thousand things to tell you.

  • Noirtier, had a thousand things to say, which he told me three days ago; and now, he has sent for you, that I may repeat them to you.

  • I am come to talk to you about a thousand things; but, first tell me, were you going out or just returned?

  • When school keeps, he has only to "do chores and go to school," but between terms there are a thousand things on the farm that have been left for the boy to do.

  • The talk went on, friendly enough at last, about a thousand things.

  • The eye catches a thousand things, but is detained by no one.

  • He felt thoroughly at sea, conscious that this girl's life contained a thousand things he did not know, a thousand points of view he did not share.

  • You have to think of Society, your children, house, money arrangements, a thousand things.

  • Dave Bellot, especially, gave me credit for knowing a thousand things of which I was utterly ignorant, and I was on thorns all the time.

  • The other men think of other men, and of home, and of a thousand things.

  • But suppose I should not see the relieving company, or suppose any one of a thousand things should at the last moment make my plan impracticable, what then?

  • Come to my dressing-room, my dear; I have a thousand things to say to you: I want to talk of my Rivers, to tell you all the weakness of my soul.

  • I have a thousand things to say to you, which I can say to no one else.

  • Oh, ma'am, a thousand things, with which I'll not weary you.

  • Perhaps--perhaps a thousand things, so that she made no doubt of Harry.

  • But I want you to ask me a thousand things.

  • Then she sang unrestrainedly a thousand things, opera airs and the song of Musette!

  • He walked up and down the room in great agitation, thinking of a thousand things.

  • She took my arm and began to talk about a thousand things --about herself, her life, her family, her business.

  • She would be reminded of him by a thousand things in the days to come.

  • She knew it was his by a thousand things.

  • A thousand things which he thought he wanted to say to her had altogether escaped him, and for a few seconds he stood dumb and confused.

  • I, but companioned by the dark array Of images that frenzy does create, And that, as forced along by grief to state A thousand things it never wished to say.

  • Musadieu had a thousand things in his mind, all his subjects for conversation from the moment when Bertin should name his preference; and he let his eloquence loose upon the two or three topics that interested him most.

  • I have a thousand things to say," continued Seymour, "a thousand things to tell, a thousand things to ask forgiveness for.

  • Then she wildly sang a thousand things; opera airs, and the song of Musette!

  • The whole family deliberated and discussed the matter, surmising a thousand things.

  • At these lamentations the poor seneschal, feeling himself to blame, endeavoured to do a thousand things, putting one out of the question, in order to make Blanche happy; but nothing was equal to the sweet caresses of the page.

  • Make a long lounge of the whole Summer--by the time the Leaves fall I shall be near you with plenty of confab--there are a thousand things I cannot write.

  • He chattered of a thousand things, mostly of topics that are the common converse of London dinner-tables.

  • Her mind sang to him of a thousand things in a moment, as is the fashion of women.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand things" 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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