Sentence examples for are that thing from inspiring English sources

To become some other thing, you have to not be that thing in the first place, and, if you are that thing, then it is hard for you to really believe that anyone else can become it, since the essence of the thing is having been it all along.

Weapons are that thing.

Especially if that "thing" is not the Iowa caucuses, because right now, a whole ton of reporters are in Iowa under the assumption that the Iowa caucuses are that "thing".

Unfortunately, if drugs are that thing, it's unlikely you'll have been able to do much preparation – those guys driving folded-up lottery tickets door to door tend not to publicise how boric acid-y their cocaine is.

Unfortunately, if drugs are that thing, it's unlikely you'll have been able to do much preparation those guys driving tiny plastic baggies door to door tend not to publicize how boric acid-y their cocaine is.

You realize that time is passing on, people are leaving the planet, people are coming on to the planet, and the boys of the summer change — who those boys are changes — but for a time you are that thing and you're still that thing that you were.

Unfortunately, the signs are that things are getting worse.

"My belief is that things will change.

And what you see is that things are missing, right?

The good news is that things are set to change.

"My impression was that things were working well for years.