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Example sentences for "thinks"

Lexicographically close words:
thinkin; thinking; thinkinge; thinkings; thinkis; thinkses; thinkst; thinly; thinne; thinned
  1. Instead of smiling Miss Wilburn looked more painful than ever; so mammy, who thinks enough of her to even do up her shirtwaists, changed the subject.

  2. Mammy Lou when I told the words to her, "if he thinks up such names as them for his fu'niture what will he do when he gets to his chil'en?

  3. I learned about Andalusia out of Washington Irving too, so I know he thinks she's pretty.

  4. But I hope this will never come to Brother Sheffield's ears, for he thinks you're certainly going there if you don't believe in a hell worse than the Standard Oil Company on fire.

  5. And he knows so much about horses, having traveled considerable, that father thinks he is very clever.

  6. Bertha knows if Aunt Laura could get Brother Sheffield to marry her she would unwill the money from the baby; so she thinks up things to tell me to do to keep them from being together, and I've been doing them.

  7. He thinks too much, which ain't no 'count.

  8. Marcella thinks the world and all of Beethoven and Wagner and other persons whose names are not spelt the way you would think.

  9. Spriggs thinks it necessary to inform Smith, who otherwise might remain ignorant of so signal a fact, that he actually does know a gentleman, or rather what he terms such.

  10. Of course she thinks it is all my fault, and I believe she will break entirely with me.

  11. No one but Mrs. Seaton thinks of me as a particularly likable chap.

  12. Frank thinks you ought to stay out here with him, Enoch," said Seaton.

  13. He thinks you are two thousand miles from here!

  14. He thinks I'm making mountains out of mole hills.

  15. If you do," Mack gave him a keen look, "you aren't enjoying it the way Curly thinks you do.

  16. And I know he thinks a lot of Miss Diana, too, but I know he won't marry her.

  17. And did you know that Seaton thinks you were kidnapped?

  18. How come everybody thinks she's so beautiful, boss?

  19. Spoons thinks it's better to amputate your leg, once in a while than to risk getting too close to the outer edge of the trail in all this snow.

  20. Her Grace thinks not, else some clue as to her path must, ere this, have been discovered.

  21. He thinks that she found out something which made her leave him again.

  22. Grandfather thinks he is lost, but I don't.

  23. My commandant, sir, who knows all about it, or at least thinks he does.

  24. She thinks of my father not as lost to her but waiting for her to rejoin him in the better land.

  25. The historian adds that he thinks it not too much to say that Webster's gallant conduct on that occasion saved both Fort McHenry and the city.

  26. One can understand, perhaps, something of their behaviour at the descent of a living man, if one thinks what a barbaric people might do, to whom an enhaloed, shining creature came suddenly out of the sky.

  27. And a casual observer would have noticed about him a certain rectitude of bearing, a certain erectness of head that marks the man who thinks well of himself.

  28. He thinks of nothing but the works and the prices of fuel.

  29. Glad you're pleased," Robin returned gruffly--the gruffness being merely the cloak to conceal his own riotous felicity which every Englishman in similar circumstances thinks it necessary to assume.

  30. Well, ask Robin what he thinks first," begged Cara.

  31. If he thinks that, then he doesn't know you at all, little sister.

  32. Don't you see--he thinks Bradley made a mistake.

  33. I imagine he thinks you did it on purpose.

  34. Eliot has broken off his engagement with me because he thinks I've deceived him.

  35. He thinks that I'm going to help him out.

  36. He loves you instead, and loves you so much that he is jealous of John because he thinks he has taken you from him.

  37. On the contrary, he thinks them a dull, heavy class of people.

  38. At present he thinks we are too fearful of coarseness and rankness, lay too much stress on refinement.

  39. In this respect Mr. Burroughs thinks that Whitman shared with Tennyson the glory of being one of the two poets in our time who have drawn inspiration from this source.

  40. Mr. Forster not only rejects the story of Stella's marriage with Swift as lacking substantial evidence, but thinks that the limits of their intercourse were early fixed and never overpassed.

  41. But he has told us what he thinks of his relations with Esther Johnson; and it is in them, as it seems to us, that we are to seek the key to the greater part of what looks most enigmatical in his conduct.

  42. And it is just so that the understanding in its pride of success thinks to pooh-pooh all that it considers impractical and visionary.

  43. He evidently thinks he was worth a lot of trouble," I thought irritably.

  44. He tells me that he thinks he sees her at night.

  45. The mother of the astonished child declares that to this day she cannot help laughing whenever she thinks of the crab that came to life.

  46. He says the prairies as far as he has seen are not equal to Iowa or Illinois, but for climate and health he thinks Oregon equals if not surpasses most parts of the world.

  47. But a lad of my age always thinks it is a great thing to go along with a covered wagon, especially if 'pap' is driving.

  48. The exact trouble is a mystery to the doctor, but he thinks it must be hydrosodia, as the sight of a piece of ice throws the patient into the wildest and most furious paroxysms.

  49. Thinks of hammock--in the lane; Wishes maiden--back again.

  50. What the editor thinks of it may be summed up in the statement that he uses it instead of calling the doctor.

  51. Maiden also--thinks of swing, And wants to go back, too, poor thing!

  52. I don't mix myself in church affairs; but I see in your eyes, I see in your heart, that you have a feeling like one who strives to hide a secret sorrow, and thinks that it is not seen.

  53. He thinks that people will spare neither pains nor money to gratify their desire to see the misfortunes of others.

  54. To what a pass has it come when, in the midst of such misery, the father thinks of himself alone!

  55. Everybody thinks they're smarter than I am.

  56. He repeated that he who thinks of revenge and retaliation does more harm to his own soul than to him whom he seeks to punish.

  57. He thinks there are spirits that direct your life and if you do wrong the evil fates let you be punished.

  58. He doesn't know anything about them but thinks they are dead as he is the youngest of the three.

  59. Elcie says she thinks that is why she has always liked stick candy.

  60. But when a nigger thinks he is something, he ain't nothin'.

  61. I thinks over old times sometimes by myself.

  62. Jack thinks they have been dead a long time but they have heirs around Waco now.

  63. He says he is going to send his wives to some of the country forts, and then either go into the Balla Hissar or wait upon you at Jellalabad; and then he thinks that the whole of the Persians will follow him.

  64. Bauer[8] thinks that lessened number of blood-corpuscles gives rise to storing of fat, owing to lessened tissue-combustion.

  65. Bowditch thinks is due to the accumulation of adipose tissue at puberty.

  66. It doth seem me, that a man never thinks of any woman but the lowest quality.

  67. I'll warrant you Wat thinks so, Sir," answers Ned.

  68. A girl may flirt a little and nobody thinks any harm of it, but it's different afterwards, and you know it.

  69. I believe she thinks the very eggs in the hen-house are predestined to be saved or damned.

  70. This land was open hunting in the time of the Jordans, and we're not going to keep off of it at the first bid of any Tom-fool that thinks he's got a better right to it.

  71. Ma, she thinks I'm at school, but I ain't.

  72. He is what you call an investigator of crime and he only takes cases that he thinks are worth-while solving.

  73. But if he thinks he is dealing with a novice in the knowledge of dainty dishes, he has made a mistake, and I will make him see it.

  74. Perhaps he has some project, some plan he is meditating, that he thinks he ought not to confide to you yet.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    thinks himself; thinks proper