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Example sentences for "thing like"

  • As there is a thing like grace, which is not, so there is a sin, called the sin against the Holy Ghost, from which there is no redemption; and this sin doth more than ordinarily befall professors.

  • There is in the world a thing like grace, that is not.

  • It's a thing like this, Dan," said Sally, producing a picture of the elegant garment in question.

  • My God," said George Lytham, "it takes a woman to think of a thing like this.

  • But where could you go to wear a thing like that--and the cloak?

  • Good Lord, Father, don't go and do a thing like that.

  • Do you want me to stand for a thing like that?

  • A thing like that," and Burgess smiled and nodded, "sometimes makes them shy of the good word.

  • At the very idea, Dexter, of your having nerve enough to do a thing like that!

  • I don't believe any one hates me badly enough to do a thing like that.

  • Not once had King dared think of a thing like that.

  • But no jangling nerves explained a thing like that.

  • In God's name," he demanded, "what do you mean by a thing like that?

  • She was not without reason; in their present predicament she was a fool to have done a thing like that; she could hardly believe that she had done it.

  • What a hypocrite the fellow must be to do a thing like that, and come here smiling and talk about making this the crack house of Grandcourt!

  • He don't deserve a testimonial for doing a thing like that.

  • Anyhow, I'm bound to report a thing like this at once, and it's barely possible it may turn something up for Railsford.

  • It's not fair to send me to the doctor about a thing like this.

  • Perhaps if you were doing a thing like that in the dark, expecting to be caught out every moment, you might make a mistake too.

  • But surely you're not going to keep a thing like this to yourself!

  • Now could you make out a thing like that?

  • Now I don't think there has ever been anything in my conduct that should make you feel Justified in saying a thing like that.

  • She said there could be no love without respect, and she would only despise a man who could content himself with a thing like her.

  • And tell him the idea is mine--I'm no more conceited than most people, I reckon, but you know it is human nature for a man to want credit for a thing like that.

  • Our maintenance-gang goes up in a thing like a small spaceship, and either works on the outside in spacesuits, or puts in a new section and brings the unserviceable one down here to the shops.

  • She must be plumb out of her head if she thinks she'll be allowed to do a thing like that.

  • It isn't funny, you know, a thing like this," he remonstrated at last.

  • I know how I'd feel about a thing like that.

  • You aren't supposed to be ahead of time for a thing like that, are you?

  • As for Susan Chandler, her Mother Testified, That being at the search of Rose Cullender, they found on her Belly a thing like a Teat, of an Inch long; which the said Rose ascribed to a strain.

  • The Boy says, He saw a thing like a Mole following of him, which once spoke to him, and told him he came to do the Office he was to do: I advised his Father to make use of the Medicine prescribed by our Saviour, viz.

  • Another time he heard a foul yelling as of a multitude of cats, and soon after this there came into his bed a thing like a cat or a hare, and coloured black, which lay heavily on him for about an hour.

  • And "loe, they espied a thing like unto a little child, with a bright shining countenaunce casting a greate light in the chamber.

  • It's a bonny come off, 'at me at's barn ommoss a duzzen children to thi should be shoved o' one side far a thing like yond!

  • Nah, what wod ta think ov a thing like that?

  • It's a bit nasty to be making capital out of a thing like that.

  • What has Mrs. Dennison to do with a thing like this, Olive?

  • But one generally keeps on with a thing like that.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thing like" 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:
    being observed; certain quantity; early settlement; great coat; high tree; individual dishes; petroleum and petroleum products; reveals itself; serve him; thick lips; thing about; thing before; thing like; things divine; things done; things like; things must; things past; things pertaining; things present; things seen; things went; things were; things which; things will; will praise