How to Use thing in a Sentence

thing

noun

• What is that thing on the floor?
• Are all your things packed?
• It was the worst thing that could have happened.
• Let's just forget about the whole thing and move on.
• He is good at making things out of clay.
• The one thing I hate most is being lied to.
• My doctor told me to avoid fatty things like donuts and potato chips.
• Birth is a miraculous thing.
• We must respect all living things.
• That sunset was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
• And the curfew thing just kind of gets in the way of that.
  — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• That’s just the sort of crazy thing that would happen to me.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 July 2022
• And theme park Twitter was there to meme the whole thing.
  — R.i.p. Murphy, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2023
• Gibbs did his thing from the two-yard line and the Tide had its first lead of the day with 19:27 to play.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 16 Oct. 2022
• That’s the only thing that’s on the horizon for me now.
  — Noah Smith, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• Bareilles, who no one knew could do this sort of thing, jumped at the chance.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
• But if this were all just a lark, the whole thing might collapse.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 May 2023
• Every few years, the Flames try to make black a thing again.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2022
• The best things come in threes — and that can be true of Hallmark movies too.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
• The same thing happened to Hailey Bieber in March 2022.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• The best thing about smoothies is that there’s no hard and fast way to make one.
  — Isabella Ubaldi, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
• The safest thing to do is to just wait until spring and see what leafs out.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Jan. 2023
• Judge still might be on his way to doing 2022 things at the plate.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
• Pugh went straight for him, though, and that was my favorite part of the whole thing.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• The one thing nobody in soccer has, as a rule, is time.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• But there’s one thing that may seem small but can mean a lot to moms – cards.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 27 Mar. 2023
• Long-term, things look better for Nix and the Broncos by the week.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
• That's the kind of thing that gives me comfort for after I'm gone.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• Read on for our top suggestions on things to do in the Navarre Beach area.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 17 Jan. 2025
• Special run-flat tires, a new thing at the time, finish off the impenetrable visage.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025