How to Use thinking in a Sentence

thinking

noun

• I'd like to know your thinking on this.
• What is the current thinking on the subject?
• A piece of quick thinking got us out of trouble.
• Form your own opinions: don't let others do your thinking for you!
• I've been doing some thinking about this, and I don't think you're right after all.
• The school's curriculum encourages independent thinking.
• If there is a cost to that way of thinking, the world may pay it this year at the polls.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
• But that's our choice, and that requires a lot of thinking on our part.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
• The systems force us to ask if our kind of thinking is the only kind that counts.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• That’s the kind of proactive thinking this country needs.
  — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
• What was the thinking behind depicting the war in this way?
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Aug. 2023
• Positive thinking brings out the best in the people around you.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
• Need a break from all that thinking, or want to simply blow off some steam?
  — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 15 Apr. 2023
• But that, my over-40 friend, is horse-and-buggy thinking.
  — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
• This kind of thinking helps nobody make sense of the future that’s coming.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• But there’s a thinking among many that the Torreys might get toppled this season.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
• That idea belongs to the world of ancient Stoicism, not to Paul’s very Jewish way of thinking.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• RuPaul has been trying to outrun that kind of thinking for a long time.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Living with your stepson’s drug abuse has warped your wife’s way of thinking.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2023
• But spending time in the Cottonwood Wash has changed his thinking about wild lands.
  — Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• A lot of utopian thinking plays off the dystopia of our present reality.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Banning books in schools & libraries that don’t conform to their way of thinking.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• The latest round of cuts underscores how flawed that thinking was and that there are likely more cuts on the horizon.
  — Vulture, 10 Jan. 2024
• Right-brain thinkers, on the other hand, are more creative in their thinking and more spontaneous.
  — Mark Soares, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2023
• The thinking went something like this: Lacking the scientific bona fides of Drs.
  — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• This way of thinking led Georgia police to decide the only way to prevent a crime getting out of had was to fight fire with fire.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• Perhaps what’s most troubling here is the rise of zero-sum thinking with regard to gender.
  — Richard V. Reeves, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
• Here are a few tips from the clinic that can help keep your approach to life upbeat: Catch your own negative self-talk and thinking.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 13 Apr. 2023
• What actually matters is how these two get along in their way of thinking.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2023
• The pressure made the other board members dig in their heels, three people familiar with their thinking said.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024