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How to use thing in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Thing means that which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. Example: “Hold on, let me just grab my things.”

Examples of thing by meaning

nounPossessions or equipment; stuff; gear.

  • Hold on, let me just grab my things.

nounA custom or practice.

  • Cheek kissing is a French thing; you get used to it after a while.

nounA genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).

  • Q: Bacon pie? Is that a thing? A: Yes, I checked into it, and it's a thing. Some people are even connoisseurs about it.
  • Clémence would say that his style was normcore before normcore became a thing.2014, Harper Lin, Croissant Murder
  • Conservative philosophy, in other words, is, as we say now, a thing and deserves a serious listen.2019, Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities, Riverrun, published 2019, page 88

nounA unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.

  • Could you get me a thing of apple juice at the store?
  • I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans.
  • And he invited us all in there and then he kicked the girls out a little bit later and brought me in a couple things of alcohol.1998 March 24, Geraldo (television)

nounA problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.

  • The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.
  • That's the thing: we don't know where he is.
  • We can't exactly die; that's like, the whole thing here?2025 June 20, Gooseworx, “Untitled” (18:28 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 5, spoken by Ragatha (Amanda Hufford)

nounA penis.

  • They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 150

nounA vulva or vagina.

  • ‘They reckon she lets her dogs lick her thing.’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 65

nounA living being or creature.

  • you poor thing
  • sweet young thing
  • she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place

More sentences with thing

  • Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.From the entry verb
  • I’ve heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.From the entry abacus
  • The policy covers all belongings and other personal things that somebody can carry about them.From the entry about
  • His job is second priority, because his family is the most important thing in his life.From the entry second
  • Things around here are just a little more country than what he's used to.From the entry country
  • As he grew older, he opened to new ways of doing things.From the entry open
  • Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.From the entry send
  • It's too early for this sort of thing. I'm not awake yet.From the entry early
  • My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.From the entry love
  • Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.From the entry abstraction
  • This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.From the entry map
  • A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.From the entry wrong
  • I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.From the entry worst
  • This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.From the entry counterfeit
  • My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.From the entry cube
  • I'd rather MoM (did) not stay, cuz the best thing about a holiday is not working.From the entry not
  • As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.From the entry chocolate
  • I couldn’t hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.From the entry break
  • And the next thing I knew, I had caught feelings for her.From the entry catch
  • What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!From the entry done
  • I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.From the entry forget
  • As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.From the entry grow
  • Don't let me keep you; I know you have things to be doing.From the entry keep
  • He keeps changing things when the existing system works perfectly well.From the entry when

Meaning of thing

  1. noun That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
  2. noun A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
  3. noun An individual object or distinct entity.

Full definition of thing

Questions about thing in a sentence

How do you use thing in a sentence?
Thing is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Hold on, let me just grab my things.”
What is a short sentence with thing?
“sweet young thing”
What does thing mean?
Thing means that which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thing (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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