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Example sentences for "thing about"

  • They would not have known a thing about it if it had not been for me.

  • We don't want somebody to come along here and claim to be Haberstro, when perhaps he don't know a thing about what is in the box.

  • Of course he would not know a thing about it," said Julian, in surprise.

  • And there was nothing in her manner that could induce you to believe that she expected it, or knew a thing about it beyond what she read in the papers?

  • No; I'm not, I don't know a thing about them.

  • I just told her I didn't know a thing about it, that I just made $2 by passing these leaflets out, but I didn't know what it was all about.

  • You know how guys pop off or something, but I didn't know a thing about it.

  • I don't think she knows a thing about it, though, of course, she does write splendidly and the words of the pageant are just beautiful.

  • Once you accept a thing about yourself as established and settled, it's all right.

  • I don't know a thing about it," was the reply.

  • Don't know a thing about it," was the reply.

  • You don't know a thing about him, do you?

  • But it don't seem square to let you take us right home with you, just because you're so darned kind you'd do it and never think a thing about it.

  • I'm able to say I don't know a thing about it.

  • I don't know a thing about that, or about the horse being gone.

  • I could bet my life, without knowin' a thing about it, that the good Lord never let you have a daughter of your own.

  • To tell you the truth, I don't know a thing about it.

  • I don't remember a thing about it," said Garth.

  • You're thinking I'm very rude to say such a thing about a friend of yours," he said, hanging his head.

  • And Jeanne, instead of telling the truth, which was that she didn't know a thing about it, saw a chance for some tall and fancy lying such as she made a specialty of.

  • You don't know a thing about it--who in Christendom the woman was--not a thing.

  • The weather is generally the only thing about a College Town not yet educated.

  • That just proves it--proves it right there--you don't care a thing about me.

  • Doris," he said, "you entered that carving in the contest and I didn't know a thing about it.

  • We didn't know a thing about it until this morning.

  • This is a secret club and it wouldn't do for me to tell you a thing about it until the meeting is called.

  • How dare you go on having worries by yourself and not letting me know a thing about them?

  • Julie, incredulously, "I don't know a thing about cooking.

  • I shan't tell you a thing about it but you just wait until dear Cousin Dale gets better, and then you'll see!

  • I don't want her to see a thing about it till she wakes up in the morning.

  • I'm too sleepy to write a thing about it.

  • I don't want Joy to know a thing about it," said Gypsy, with a decision in her voice that amounted almost to anger.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thing about" 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:
    appropriation bills; asked about; commercial success; human affection; lukewarm water; machine guns; meteorological observations; scientific studies; small rock; thing before; thing cannot; thing impossible; thing that; thing which; things according; things around; things done; things existing; things hoped; things indifferent; things like; things past; things spiritual; things that; things went; things would