Sentence examples for thing refer from inspiring English sources

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If you really want to impress an Irish person that you're down with this whole Christmas thing, refer to the day after Christmas as St Stephen's day, not Boxing Day.

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He said the company isn't excited to be part of "this whole thing," referring to his Fox News program.

Well, for one thing, referring to the Forms, particularly with a capital "F", is pretty misleading, though it is conventional.

Mo'Nique has called her au naturel legs "a black woman's thing," referring to some African-American women who used to be non-shavers.

His lawyer, Mr. Leff, said, "I think this is an interpretive thing," referring to the government's charges, adding, "Everything was done correctly".

"My mom sort of put her into this little acting thing" referring to a community playhouse — "and they said, 'Oh, you should go to L.A. or New York and find an agent.' " The family was living in Conyers, Ga.

Mr. Perazzo, the restaurant owner, said, "We've hired a contractor and applied for a permit to put a sound barrier around the whole thing," referring to the unit nearer the Johnsons'.

According to the Parisian School, the term 'he' refers to the thing referred to by the term 'Antichrist'.

If, then, we follow Gottlob Frege (1977) in classifying all objects as being the sort of thing referred to by singular terms, and all properties as the sort of thing referred to by predicates, then types would be objects.

In the process of cooperative action through language the thing referred to gains both meaning and heightened potential.

Speakers can use language to communicate because they are familiar with the kinds of similar things that words refer to, and thus upon hearing a word know what the thing referred to "is like".

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