Sentence examples for by a thought from inspiring English sources

One day, when I was gazing out of a bus window, I was struck by a thought: "What do I want out of life?" "Well," I thought, "I want to be happy".

I'd been struck by a thought.

He looked up at her and stopped, struck by a thought.

STALLED in a cab one evening in 1998, the businessman Donald Rubin leaned out his window, stunned by a thought.

While keeping his fans updated on the balloon's forlorn progress over the following days, Go was struck by a thought.

Jackson told the audience that "Fast Forward," the song, was partly inspired by a thought he'd had about building a time machine.

He dramatised this viewpoint by a thought-experiment (which nowadays can readily be tried out).

Each block was immediately followed by a thought-probe which interrupted the task.

I've never been possessed by such a thought!

They proceed by sketching a thought experiment.

The natural response seems to be that we answer these questions by performing a thought experiment.