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Example sentences for "think about"

  • It doesn't do to think about death if you're facing a charging lion or trying to bluff a lot of savages.

  • But there was still a fair amount of troops to play with, and I determined to tangle up that outfit so that the fellows who were after me would have better things to think about.

  • But it's a wearing job and I've better things to think about.

  • When Drouet was gone, she sat down in her rocking-chair by the window to think about it.

  • He wanted to think about it--to ponder over it, to decide whether it were best.

  • When she went into her own flat she had this to think about.

  • Since you came--well, I've had you to think about.

  • With it once out and before him, it seemed a foolish thing to think about leaving it.

  • We think about it; and, in our strange new power of voluntary action do things to it.

  • As a starter here is a tentative list to think about; open to alteration and addition by anyone.

  • Isn't it time we learned to think about them?

  • You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.

  • It is only because I am tired and have such odious things to think about," she kept repeating; and it seemed an added injustice that petty cares should leave a trace on the beauty which was her only defence against them.

  • Every sleepless night leaves a new one--and how can I sleep, when I have such dreadful things to think about?

  • If you want to know what I think about them, I think they're disgusting.

  • It appears you want to go to Germany, and he asks me what I think about it.

  • You know, people don't think about it nearly as much as you do.

  • It was subtly flattering to know that with the whole school to think about Mr. Perkins should trouble with him, but at the same time something else in him, like another person standing at his elbow, clung desperately to two words.

  • You can no more resolve to live a life of honour nowadays and abstain from social and political scheming on a world-wide scale, than you can profess religion and refuse to think about God.

  • I'm going round the world to think about it," Benham told her.

  • I went out of London to think about my life.

  • I like to think about it, and Uncle Caesar Hollowell crossing the Rubicon in his theological seminary.

  • If papa can read it he will find out a good deal that I think about him.

  • And there is so much to read, and so much to think about, and the world is so interesting, if you do think about it, and nearly every person has some peculiarity of mind that would be worth study if you could only get at it!

  • No, indeed, I don't; Mr. Rochester has something else to think about.

  • She seems to think about as much of the Old Lady as the Old Lady thinks of her.

  • I've got eight myself, or I'd think about it.

  • There I will look through them and tell you what I think about it tomorrow.

  • The season had begun by now, and it would be time to think about her "At Homes.

  • I had plenty of time to think during the fortnight which followed and there was enough to think about.

  • We've got Denboro and the Shore Lane to think about, ain't we?

  • Though why you should want to think about a thing like me I don't see.

  • Want more time to think about it, do you?

  • But it is our business to think about him, because we need him.

  • If I were married and didn't have to think about my looks and my figure I'm afraid I'd give up.

  • We have too much to do to think about ourselves.

  • And you won't think about it, and let it trouble you, will you?

  • And Morel sitting there, quite alone, and having nothing to think about, would be feeling vaguely uncomfortable.

  • I really don't know what to think about you," she began, in a feeble, perverse attempt at conciliation.

  • Oh it's so hard to write you what I really feel when I think about you so much; you've gotten to mean to me a dream that I can't put on paper any more.

  • There's plenty of time to think about that, mother," answered Janet.

  • When she was away from Ditmar and tried to think about it she fell into an abject perplexity, so full was it of anomalies and contradictions, of conflicting impulses; so far beyond her knowledge and experience.

  • Now about a God (he said to himself)--instinct tells me that there is one, for when I think about Him I find that I unconsciously wag my tail a little.

  • There is a great deal more to think about in raising children (he said to himself) than is intimated in Dr.

  • Indulging in the rare, the sovereign luxury of thinking, he had suddenly become aware of time's precious fluency, and wondered why everyone else didn't think about it as passionately as he did.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "think 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:
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