Sentence examples for thing and its from inspiring English sources

Douglass noted that a tree "is not a mechanical robot; it is a living thing and its food supply and adventures through life all enter into its diary".

That usage makes it a contranym (also called a Janus word) in that it means both one thing and its opposite, such as cleave (to cling or to split) or sanction (to permit or to punish).

Medium's Twitter account describes it as "The new thing", and its only tweet is "Getting antsy", which was posted last night and seems to foreshadow an imminent launch.

Also in favor of the account is that it does at least as good a job as the set-theoretical view since it explains the relationship between a thing and its constituting matter in a similar way, yet posits no novel entities like sets.

For instance, most games don't use 'em; it'll play stuff fine but it's not made for that kind of thing and its scores reflect that.

Returning to the concept of intrinsicality (§6.3), it seems that there are orienting characterizations of the notion that don't explicitly appeal to the concept of grounding (e.g., the claim that a property is intrinsic just in case an ascription of it to something is entirely about how that thing and its parts are, and not at all about how things wholly distinct from it are—see Lewis 1983b).

We are treated by pop culture as disgusting things and "its" for having the body we were born with.

Not surprisingly, the results pleased neither GM's beancounters nor Saab enthusiasts.Saab's idiosyncratic way of doing things, and its powerful unions, make it unusually difficult to sell.

"Brooklyn has its thing and has its fabulous wealth of authors and great book culture," said Brenda Copeland, an editor at St. Martin's Press and one of the festival's organizers.

We are seeing one of those episodes when the Government claims to be doing great things and its opponents give substance to this ploy by taking it more seriously than it deserves by opposing it root and branch.

Nevertheless, Dodds, interpreting Aquinas, maintains that immutability "seems to signify divine being (esse) more appropriately [than mutability] since it more clearly indicates its distinction from all other things and its transcendence of all human thought and language" (Dodds 2008, 157 158).