Sentence examples for double thing from inspiring English sources

You get a sort of double thing.

But I think a double thing happens.

"It's kind of a double thing," he says.

"And it's a double thing: it raises our profile, but it also gives us good buildings which last, so we benefit in the long term.

What counts as a community's morality is always a double thing, consisting of the conventional morality of a previous generation in tension with the contested, evolving values under negotiation at any one time in the public debate.

When she took on the BNP in her Barking constituency only months after his funeral – Henry died in June 2009, and Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, announced he was standing against her in November – it was, she says, "a double thing..

Mr. Skidmore, a bachelor and a poorly paid architectural draftsman, suddenly found himself possessed of the gift of being able to double things; one dollar billwould turn into two dollars, he wanted more ice and he'd double the ice box, etc.

By Oliver LaFarge The New Yorker, March 23 , 1940 P. 20Mr. Skidmore, a bachelor and a poorly paid architectural draftsman, suddenly found himself possessed of the gift of being able to double things; one dollar billwould turn into two dollars, he wanted more ice and he'd double the ice box, etc.

"Honestly, man," he told reporters earlier this season, "this triple-double thing is kind of getting on my nerves.

If it's doubles, things get a bit more complex.

I'm doing all these body-double things".