Sentence examples for something was and from inspiring English sources

They all insisted that "something must be done," but they diverged when it came to what that something was and how it should be carried out.

FIFA will have some time to decide whether something happened and, if so, what that something was and how Suarez will be punished.

Looking at the results in Frankfurt and Edinburgh made me wonder what that "something" was, and why he had succeeded in a field where so many of his fellow artists have failed.

"Every act of preservation is inescapably an act of renewal by the light of a later time, a set of decisions both about what we think something was and about what we want it to be and to say about ourselves today," he wrote in his book "The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation" (W.W. Norton, 1998).

Crisis averted, doubt cleared up, she'd say: "Now, I've been wondering just how a hologram works" or "I think the next big problem will be weather", or exclaim how ravishing something was, and off you'd go, feeling shored up, inspired and supported.

But something was, and every time I thought about it, I became angrier and angrier.

Can something be and not be at the same time?

But just what that something is, and what to do about it, remains elusive.

One can understand what something is and also know that it does not exist.

Something was gained and something was lost.

Something was wrong, and needed fixing.