Sentence examples for thing have been from inspiring English sources

Could the whole thing have been a hipster's prank, or a viral marketing campaign?

He is a decent and generous-spirited man, whose attempts to do the right thing have been frustrated by Republican majorities in Congress.

The hurry necessitated to ensure the survival of Japan's monarchy is a valid point, but shouldn't the whole thing have been rethought when the pressure was off, at the latest with the signing of the 1951 peace treaty?

These earlier iterations — while never more than the next best thing — have been providing pleasure for more than a century through art books, as postcards, posters and art-history-lecture slides.

No-contract phones — or prepaid, which is essentially the same thing — have been around for quite some time, but most consumers thought they were "for people who couldn't afford a better phone or couldn't pass a credit check," said Jayne Wallace, a spokeswoman for the Sprint Prepaid Group, which was formed in 2010.

The facts are that some mothers do abuse, even kill their children; and that some mothers who have done no such thing have been jailed or lost their babies in the Family Courts on highly contentious evidence provided by Meadow and his label.

This thing has been all-consuming.

That thing has been dogging me.

Poor thing had been waiting so long.

The great thing has been Brad Haddin.

"The whole thing has been a nightmare.