Example sentences for: it--the

How can you use “it--the” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Burying the story as a way of sort of half-publishing it--the Washington Post approach--also seems silly.

  • A fine goal, but the group has its work cut out for it--the most prominent Jewish woman this year pretty much fits those pejoratives to a T and the media didn't make her up: Monica Lewinsky.

  • She hardly needs to mention it--the media bring it up anyway--but she invokes it subtly, alluding (as she did on two Sunday talk shows) to "women who drive their daughters halfway across the state to shake my hand, a woman they dare to believe in."

  • Avoiding the truth is more like it--the Post didn't turn on the TV or tell the girl to suck her thumb.

  • Mills, a research professor in English at Sheffield Hallam University, looks at these issues in relation to conventional models of text in which a piece of written material is treated as if it existed in its own right with little reference to factors or constraints outside it--the socioeconomic factors of gender and race, for example.


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