Sentence examples for thing by which from inspiring English sources

"The happiest thing" — by which he surely meant "funniest thing" — "is when I broke my shoulder," Cardelli said.

Lee's lawyers and other defenders have generally charged that what Deutch and Lee did was really "the same thing," by which they appear to mean removing classified files from the workplace.

Designers are there to make women more beautiful, to give them their freedom, not to collaborate with this dictatorship which imposes this abominable thing by which we hide women and make them live a hidden life.

It may not get there, but it won't half be a close-run thing, by which time all the people who prefer VoD or digital viewing will enter the fray.

Newton expected to achieve what the tablet said was the una res, "the one thing" by which "the world was created" and with which one could "perform miracles". The British chemist Robert Boyle, a Newton contemporary, also had a foot on each side of the alchemy-modern science divide.

Creech, whose novel "Walk Two Moons" won the 1995 Newbery Medal, uses a free-verse journal to tap deeply into "the boy thing," by which I mean the difficulty that many boys have in putting words to the complexity that exists inside them.

There are things by which to be comforted.

Thanks for telling us about these good things by which we can judge quality food.

Movements and schools are arbitrary and immaterial things by which poetic history is told.

Rather assist me, then, to gain this character than require me to do those things by which I may lose it.

/ The names and dosage of prescription drugs" are things by which her parents "measure out their hours, / in this small back kitchen".