Sentence examples for thinking something else from inspiring English sources

He's doing one thing, thinking something else.

His wry smile, however, indicated he might have been thinking something else.

You don't have to worry if he's saying one thing and thinking something else.

"I wasn't thinking 'awesome.' I was thinking something else," she said.

"Usually," he explained, "somebody has done something good to get to second base, stolen the base or hit a double, and they're thinking something else, especially when they hit a double.

You can watch or listen to the cricket and do other things, and that in turn allows the game to weave itself through your life over the summer, with patches where you are fully concentrating on the contest paralleled by stretches where you are half-watching it while doing, and thinking, something else.

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different".

As for Adam, when he was lying speechless in some hospital bed after his third coronary, everybody would think he was thinking about one thing, but he would be thinking about something else.

Salience matters: People are more likely to protect their privacy if they're thinking about it, and less likely to if they're thinking about something else.

This principle, or formula, came to me when I was thinking about something else entirely - usually a good sign, lateral thinking being generally saner than the logical kind.

"It's not that you're not thinking about driving, but there is a part of your mind that is thinking of something else.