Sentence examples for definite thing from inspiring English sources

A frightened child is a definite thing.

"The only definite thing so far is more taxes.

"Eraserhead" was "a real, definite thing in my head," he says.

Now, New Zealand electro is a definite thing: downbeat, minimalist, performed by young musicians with whom Little seems to collaborate carefully, spinning their raw, unformed talent into something cool, listenable, effortless.

There is no such thing as existence other than as some definite thing with a specific identity; identity is the form that existence takes.

But in any case "what we seek is the cause, i.e., the form, by reason of which the matter is some definite thing; and this is the substance of the thing" (1041b6 9) and "the primary cause of its being" (1041b27).

"Not vaguer than the other principle, it leads to definite things, but since these are future things, they cannot be described under the present daylight".

But to be a white man of authority, a sahib, is "to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things".

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

But in the end, the numbers seem to say some definite things that Bettman must keep in mind when it comes time to decide about Sochi.

One of the biggest mysteries of quantum physics is the process of collapse, which is the transition between the probabilistic quantum world and the world of definite things we see around us.