How to use anything in a sentence
40 example sentences · pronoun, noun, verb
Anything means any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other. Example: “I would not do it for anything.”
Examples of anything by meaning
pronounAny object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
- I would not do it for anything.
- Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
pronounExpressing an indefinite comparison.
- Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.1916, Edward S. Moffat, Go Forth and Find, pages 81–82
nounSomeone or something of importance.
- How long does it take to turn you actors into good anythings?1986, David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
- So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi.2007 May 6, Cindy Chupack, “An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce”, in New York Times
verbUsed as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.
- He wasn't cooking, he wasn't sweeping, he wasn't anythinging!
- –I don't want to accompany him! –You never want to anything him!
adverbIn any way, any extent or any degree.
- That isn't anything like a car.
- She's not anything like as strong as me.
More sentences with anything
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.From the entry book
- He’s always been an accommodating neighbor, offering to help with anything.From the entry accommodating
- I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.From the entry academic
- You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.From the entry achieve
- They thought anything Elvis did would sell, but that was not true.From the entry would
- Sorry, officer, I wouldn't know anything about the crime, since I was nowhere near the scene.From the entry would
- Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else.From the entry gnaw
- He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.From the entry comparison
- I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice cream to be a "real" float.From the entry float
- I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.From the entry help
- I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal.From the entry turn up
- She has the entire crew under her thumb. They would do anything for her.From the entry under one's thumb
- Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.From the entry pare
- Clearly the libelous book is actionable, but I'm not commenting on anything to do with legal issues.From the entry actionable
- I did not register that look to mean anything more than an innocent, friendly smile.From the entry register
- I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.From the entry stodgy
- I'm moving next week but I don't have anything packed yet.From the entry move
- She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.From the entry match
- Don't let them hornswoggle you into buying anything you don't need.From the entry hornswoggle
- As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.From the entry inferior
- I s'pose we'd better clean the kitchen, but we had much rather not do anything right now.From the entry rather
- The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.From the entry crux
- I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?From the entry hoagie
- She'll teethe on anything that she can get into her mouth.From the entry teethe
- I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.From the entry devoid
- Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.From the entry leech
- I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.From the entry slouch
- The disgust I felt after watching last weekend's horror movie was unlike anything I had felt before.From the entry unlike
- What appears to be wonderful may turn out to be anything but.From the entry wonderful
- The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything.From the entry babble
- He didn't mean anything by it; it was an innocent mistake.From the entry innocent
Meaning of anything
- pronoun Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
- pronoun Expressing an indefinite comparison.
- noun Someone or something of importance.
Questions about anything in a sentence
- How do you use anything in a sentence?
- Anything is used as a pronoun, noun and verb. For example: “I would not do it for anything.”
- What is a short sentence with anything?
- “That isn't anything like a car.”
- What does anything mean?
- Anything means any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: anything (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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