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Example sentences for: things

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

"Things got ugly in Iowa today when Elizabeth Dole suddenly shouted, 'Off the stage, m*****f*****,' and sent George W. Bush reeling, in a scene eerily reminiscent of her husband's 1996 tumble."
It's a cute little box that sits on your Windows 95 desktop and does many remarkable things.
Sometimes a simple transposition of letters may make things more complicated.
Even Word's online Help (in recent versions an annoying talking paper clip that many people quite rightly refuse to interact with) doesn't seem to know about some things the program can do.
She's Ellie (Jodie Foster), a brilliant, idealistic scientist who, when things go wrong, hugs her knees to her chest.