How to use "thing" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "thing" in popular movie and book plots

  • mr Bullock realizes his daughter has orchestrated the whole thing and sees the policemen out.  - My Man Godfrey
  • He says that she does not have to go and that he does not want "that thing about [her] that [he] like[s]" to change.  - Manhattan (film)
  • The only thing keeping the besiegers at bay is a formidable gun emplacement on the left rampart.  - The Last of the Mohicans (1920 American film)
  • He sits among the wreckage, playing the only thing in his apartment left intact: his saxophone.  - The Conversation
  • I have no control over this evil thing that's inside me - the fire, the voices, the torment.  - M (1931 film)
  • He decides the only thing he can do is leave again.  - Farscape
  • Alice has invited Tony, his father, and his mother over for dinner the next evening, and it is the only thing on the entire family's mind.  - You Can't Take It with You (play)
  • As the camera rises just before the blade falls, Carton's voice is heard, saying, "It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done.  - A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
  • He says she planned the whole thing to get rid of Thursby, by getting him into a fight.  - The Maltese Falcon (novel)
  • When Frank tells him such a thing would be highly unlikely, Bobby's feelings of despair intensify.  - Saturday Night Fever
  • Back in Aquaria, they find that the wakewater doesn't work, and reviving the crystal is the only thing that will save the town and Spencer.  - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
  • Before they head out into the space, Creator asks that they leave it one thing from them.  - Radiant Silvergun
  • Tuesday - Don slips out and pawns Helen’s coat - the thing which had first brought them together - in order to buy a gun.  - The Lost Weekend (film)
  • Lyle looks at Alvin's mower-tractor contraption and asks if Alvin had ridden that thing just to see him.  - The Straight Story
  • Mary, who has given up on true love, insists that life isn’t a fairytale and marrying Massimo is the right thing to do.  - The Wedding Planner
  • Queequeg's coffin comes to the surface, the only thing to escape the vortex when Pequod sank.  - Moby-Dick

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