Sentence examples for thing was about from inspiring English sources

I just got what the whole thing was about: you're a hundred things at once?

"He had to bring him up to speed on what the thing was about and who the character was".

("The whole thing was about, 'In the future, we're going to get to know each other better,' " he explained).

Most employees were good, moral people at home, he said, but as soon as they got into the workplace they came to believe that doing the right thing was about following orders.

This kind of thing was about as arousing as a golfer's knitwear when Kubrick dragged it into "Eyes Wide Shut," and it still strikes me as the asexual's idea of what sex is meant to look like — hot, robotic, and vaguely European, as if Victoria's Secret had been bought out by a company of Freemasons.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph she said: "[At] De Lisle [College] in my constituency one of the thing was about not sending emails after working hours because it is quite stressful if you're at home or at the weekend and you've got people sending off emails".

"That's what this whole thing is about".

"Don't know what the whole thing is about".

And that's all this whole thing is about...

But mathematically, this thing is about over".

Things are about to quiet down.