How to use everything in a sentence
40 example sentences · pronoun, verb
Everything means all the things under discussion. Example: “I checked the list again and everything is done.”
Examples of everything by meaning
pronounAll the things under discussion.
- I checked the list again and everything is done.
- Thank you for everything you've done for us.
- I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 97
pronounMany or most things.
- I did everything today – washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
pronounA state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
- Everything failed, didn't it?
- She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
- Since the company lost its best customer everything has gotten worse.
pronounConsiderable effort.
- It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
pronounThe most important thing.
- I can't believe I made it in time – timing is everything!
verbUsed as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.
- We're printed, weighed, photographed, everythinged.1990, Jonathan Gash, The Very Last Gambado, St. Martin's Press, page 107
- After being adopted by Joan, after having his matted coat shaved bare, after being dewormed and de-everythinged after being loved and fed and loved some more, Charlie has turned into a brand-new dog.2007, Nancy Kennedy, Lipstick Grace, Multnomah Books, page 216
More sentences with everything
- We used to prepare everything today, but now we split it over two days.From the entry today
- The staff were very accommodating and made sure we had everything we needed.From the entry accommodating
- Despite the reduced price of goods at the BX, everything is of high quality.From the entry bx
- He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.From the entry jump
- He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.From the entry buff
- He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.From the entry bad
- I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.From the entry down
- He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.From the entry drunk
- We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.From the entry boat
- He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.From the entry beautiful
- The child was so spoilt that she expected everything to be done for her.From the entry spoilt
- The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.From the entry pig
- Midas made everything turn to gold. He turned into a monster every full moon.From the entry turn
- He worked into the wee small hours to get everything perfect for the opening day.From the entry wee small hours
- Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.From the entry curious
- I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.From the entry up
- I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.From the entry spot
- When the boss came to know about the scheme, he went off, shouting and throwing everything away.From the entry go off
- How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?From the entry consider
- His wrong-headed beliefs are antithetical to everything we stand for as a community.From the entry antithetical
- Jim tries to look flash, but he buys everything on the long finger.From the entry long finger
- Physically, everything is perfect, but concerning your mental state, you have some problems.From the entry concerning
- The situation certainly looked bad, but it turned out that everything was innocent.From the entry innocent
- The computer had a bunch of strange components, but it still POSTed so I assumed everything worked.From the entry post
- I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.From the entry zone
- He had to impawn everything he owned just to pay his rent.From the entry impawn
- I love her youth, her beauty and above all her optimism that everything will turn out fine.From the entry optimism
- They bent over backwards to make sure everything was just right for the visit.From the entry bend over backwards
- Let's get everything sorted into the right drawers and not split hairs about subdividing it further yet.From the entry split hairs
Meaning of everything
- pronoun All the things under discussion.
- pronoun Many or most things.
- pronoun A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
Questions about everything in a sentence
- How do you use everything in a sentence?
- Everything is used as a pronoun and verb. For example: “I checked the list again and everything is done.”
- What is a short sentence with everything?
- “Everything failed, didn't it?”
- What does everything mean?
- Everything means all the things under discussion.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: everything (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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