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Example sentences for "find something"

  • I publish them together, that the Young and Old may find something in the same Paper which may be suitable to their respective Taste in Solitude; for I know no Fault in the Description of ardent Desires, provided they are honourable.

  • Whereupon she endeavored to find something to say that would come "within the act.

  • Theseus was glad to find something he could do to please his dear friend, so one morning he took him with him to the prison where Palamon and Arcite were.

  • God hath valued it, he hath put the soul of man in the balance, to find something equal in weight of dignity and worth and when all that is in heaven and earth is put in the other scale, the soul is down weight by far.

  • She was still smiling as she looked at him; she even began to laugh; and he lost his head trying to find something suitable to say, no matter what.

  • How they toss their heads while they inspect each other to find something to condemn!

  • It always seems to me that I find something to the point when I open that book.

  • I find something of the same interest in thinking about one of the boarders at our table that I find in my waking dreams concerning the Man of the Monument.

  • Every now and then I find something in my book that seems so good to me, I can't help thinking it must have leaked in.

  • Now let's go find something to eat, and I will finish the bridge so you can rest there to-night and watch the sun set on Singing Water.

  • There is no use to borrow trouble, so we will say everything in the world is right with us, and be as happy as we can on that until we find something we cannot avoid worrying over.

  • She closed the door and went to find something to eat, and then to the swing, where she liked to rest, look, and listen.

  • It was an awkward pause; each was trying to find something agreeable to say.

  • What, then, does he attempt, who turns over the sacred pages to find something in the way of permission or command, which may set him free from the obligations of the Golden Rule?

  • You'd find something to be glad about, of course.

  • The game is to find something in everything to be glad about; and you couldn't even begin to hunt, for there isn't anything about you but what you COULD be glad about.

  • I'll tell him that if you don't find something to do, you won't be able to stay here.

  • Well, we'll find something to shoot, all right, if it's just squirrels.

  • Chumbley stared and tried to find something suitable to reply, but nothing came, and the situation seemed to him so comical that he smiled, and then, as the Princess smiled too, he laughed outright.

  • It was, however, in its upper portion that the doctor hoped to find something to interest him; and after all it was not probable that the occupants of the prahu would be searching for gold.

  • To make search; to try to find something.

  • To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

  • I fed my horse, attended to the business which I had been sent to transact, and then tried to find something in the way of rations for myself, but failed utterly.

  • No, sir; I shall be certain to find something to do, if it is only blacking boots.

  • If we find something better in the present instance, it is not because Paul and his mother are any better off than their neighbors.

  • I'll go out after dinner, and see if I can't find something else to do.

  • I may well say that your letters are of value to me, for I seldom receive one but I find something in it which makes me reflect, and reflect on new themes.

  • I tried to find something admirable in him, and failed.

  • Railway shares will rise, your books will sell, and you will acquire influence and power; and then most certainly you will find something to use it in which will interest you and make you exert yourself.

  • Then Monday, the 14th as best as I recall, was the first time we talked about him, more than to say it was too bad he didn't find something.

  • I know he had spent at least 2 weeks looking for work on previous occasions in different cities and I thought he wanted to find something before he communicated.

  • There again, by its design, you would expect to find something, although there are cases where you won't find it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "find something" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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