Sentence examples for given a thing from inspiring English sources

I had a white coat and a pair of goggles and I was given a thing called a bone saw, which is a very frightening rotator blade.

Naipaul was panicked and disturbed by Mauritius, 'an agricultural colony, created by empire in an empty island and always meant to be part of something larger, now given a thing called independence and set adrift, an abandoned imperial barracoon, incapable of economic or cultural autonomy'.

Applied to the raven hypothesis, this means that, given a thing named "c", the truth of "Rc" and "Bc" confirms it; the truth of "Rc" and "¬Bc" disconfirms it; and the truth of "¬Rc" neither confirms nor disconfirms it, but remains evidentially neutral, regardless of the truth value of "Bc".

Flaws and idiosyncrasies are what give a thing its soul.

But when you give a thing, when you lose a thing -- even if that thing is your self -- you never get it back.

As you enter, you are given a "passport", for things to spot and get stamped.

You will usually be given a list of things that your child needs.

He seemed to find significance in giving a nonhuman thing like a hurricane a name.

" It's nice to give a visual thing for the actual patient themselves.

But I think the military are giving a few things to the Muslim Brotherhood, and keeping what is essential".

He gave directives, a thing my husband never did.