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Example sentences for "two things"

  • It was some time before they could make it out at all, but when they did there were one or two things about it that seemed a little unnatural.

  • One or two things of this kind happened that made a stir for a day or two, but with these exceptions the winter was hard to get through.

  • Lasse went into the bedroom to arrange one or two things so that he could slip out in the evening without Pelle noticing it.

  • There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

  • Two things, I believe, contribute to their success.

  • When, therefore, we hear that such robberies are done on the King's highway, two things become us to do: 1.

  • Only by the way, let me bid thee have a care of two things, and so I shall pass to the next thing.

  • These words, then, teach us two things worthy of our Christian consideration.

  • I thought nobody had been like me; but I see there was some semblance betwixt this good man and I; only we differed in two things: His troubles were so great, they break out; but mine I kept within.

  • Well, I see that saying and doing are two things, and hereafter I shall better observe this distinction.

  • First, The casting out itself standeth in two things.

  • David," said he, solemnly, "remember it never pays to try to be two things at once.

  • I wanted to ask you one or two things," she began, not very steadily.

  • He did not know what to make of it, and told his colleagues so; and at first they feared one of two things,--treachery or lunacy.

  • So, then, we must admit one of two things.

  • When we do wrong, the judge within, which we call conscience, says to us two things, or perhaps three.

  • Two things, the earnest eagerness of the act of flight, and the absolute security which comes when we have reached the shadow of the great Rock in a weary land.

  • No doubt there will be many readers who will consider superfluous this careful separation of two things lying so close together as tactics and strategy, because it has no direct effect on the conduct itself of War.

  • It is somewhat different with the privations; they consist chiefly of two things, the want of food, and the want of shelter for the troops, either in quarters or in suitable camps.

  • Jesus points to two things, as you will observe, which make this hostility inevitable.

  • In the interest of public decency, and for the protection of the reputation of American citizenship, one of two things should be done.

  • It should open the eyes of the American people to two things: the economic value of these birds, and the fact that they are everywhere far on the road toward extermination!

  • The time has come when the people who don't shoot must do one of two things: 1.

  • Two things remain to be done in the state of New York.

  • And for this end, we shall only speak a little to two things.

  • For satisfaction to this, it would be considered, that in those daily out breakings there are two things to be noticed.

  • And for this cause we shall speak briefly to two things.

  • Now, of two things one: either this is usurpation on his part, or it is error.

  • One of two things is true: either the proportional tax guarantees a privilege to the larger tax-payers, or else it is a wrong.

  • It puts emphasis on two things: His subordination to the divine will of the Father, and the restrictions imposed thereby on the scope of His beneficent working.

  • However, he assured himself of two things; he was comparatively comfortable, and within two hours at the most they would reach Hodges' headquarters, if the Wekusko camp were really to be their destination.

  • In the few terrible seconds that followed Philip was conscious of two things--that death was very near, and that Billinger was a moment too late.

  • MacGregor knows you pretty well, Bucky, and knows one or two things you've done, even though your whole record is not an open book to him.

  • For to die is one of two things: for either the dead may be annihilated, and have no sensation of any thing whatever; or, as it is said, there are a certain change and passage of the soul from one place to another.

  • I will give you your plants if you will do two things.

  • This is because of two things: first, the children have so many little separate exhibits; second, we do not stop to discuss carefully the matter of arrangement and preparation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "two 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:
    about nine; being heard; first idea; form and regulate their domestic institutions; large part; less closely; teaspoon cinnamon; this style; two days; two days after the; two hundred; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; two hundred thousand dollars; two hundred thousand pounds; two large octavo volumes; two later; two minutes; two more; two other; two ounces; two pieces; two sockets under one; two thousand five hundred; two thousand seven hundred; two weeks; water hole