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Example sentences for "living thing"

  • I took the wand and touched the sand, and every grain of sand became a living thing; the beach was all a mass of beauty and of song.

  • He is a part of everything, for he has been a living thing on every plane of life.

  • Of one thing only were we sure, and that was, there was no living thing in the house, beside ourselves, while everywhere throughout the house, there was the taint of that disgusting odor.

  • I made a very thorough search of the house, and when I had finished, I knew that all the lower windows and doors were properly shut and fastened, and that there was no living thing in the house, beyond our two selves.

  • Yet it eluded me, as though some invisible, living thing jerked it hither and thither.

  • For at night one might eat a a living thing by mistake.

  • And here went shadows, skipping and dodging about, and not the sign of a living thing to do the skipping and dodging, that I could see.

  • With startled eyes the boy looked all around him--not a living thing was to be seen in the room.

  • Nothing but a living thing can produce a living thing.

  • The wheat plant in the field is said to be a living thing; the fowl running about the farmyard is also said to be a living thing.

  • To the thinking mind a knowledge of these solutions but begets other and greater problems, such as how can a living thing be frozen solid for weeks and yet retain vitality enough to fully recover?

  • The Angel of Death which moved through the Old Bailey Sessions House in bygone days was, indeed, a living thing.

  • Further, a living thing is more perfect than what merely exists; and an intelligent thing than what merely lives.

  • Now the relation between Godhead and God is the same as the relation between life and a living thing.

  • The able pathological anatomist of the London University college is a "living thing.

  • All was perfectly silent around us, and no living thing could be seen.

  • He touched a few chords to see that the lute was well tuned; and the lute obeyed his touch like a living thing; and then Paul sang a song of springtime that made the hearts of the pair dance with joy.

  • Not a living thing was in sight from either!

  • There was no living thing in sight, the road was empty as far as the eye could see.

  • I assure you," the officer interrupted, "that there was no living thing in the room when we entered.

  • Primarily, because no living thing should be killed for food.

  • He had not spoken, save to curse heaven and earth and every living thing.

  • If she had a preference, it might be for the office that hurt some living thing; but she did not care: all she heeded was whether she had pottage enough to eat at noonday, and the leaden effigy of her Mary safe around her throat at night.

  • He--the only friend who fails no living thing.

  • For an interval the eyes of the two men rested upon each other in a silence that was like the grip of a living thing.

  • It seemed to him, as the minutes passed, like a living thing.

  • To Kent it had crept into his cell like a living thing.

  • This last wave, which was an accumulation of forces, had a singular resemblance to a living thing.

  • They took an interest in it as in a living thing.

  • It was a living thing; unless, indeed, it were but an illusion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "living thing" 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:
    half speed; letters written; living beings; living bodies; living creature; living language; living matter; living nature; living room; living species; living stones; living things; living together; living trees; living water; living waters; nucleated protoplasm; previous page; removal from; reserve corps; sexual dimorphism; she had never seen; small patch; small wooden; takes part; this situation