Sentence examples for everything to be something from inspiring English sources

I expected everything to be something it wasn't.

"That's our trouble," said my friend Roger, "everything used to be something else".

Everything is poised to be something special.

"I don't mean it as everything is the same, but that everything has the potential to be something, and that one should not close one's eyes, just because we have preformed ideas about a value system – this is higher, this is lower.

Right now I cannot say yes or no to that.' Not agreement exactly, but from a man accustomed to fighting his corner over everything, I take this to be something like concession.

Almost everything in New York used to be something else.

Like everything else, cool seems to be something that you can gain entirely online now.

Hopefully we did badminton proud and next game, watch us, we're going to give everything and it's going to be something special I hope".

He was paraphrasing a remark by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, a delegate to the Estates-General of 1789, who said the third estate is everything, has nothing but wants to be something.

But while not everything lasts, there always seems to be something new emerging – thanks partly to the 2008 financial crisis, which fostered a nothing-to-lose attitude, as well as low rents.

"I suspect it's going to be something of everything," he said.