Words similar to things

Example sentences for: things

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

Then, before things get too heavy, the woman will realize her child comes first and break up with him.
I started collecting examples of journalists saying things like "this overvalued market" and "Does anyone remember Japan in the 1980s?
It works much of the time, particularly for highly denotative ostensive objects; but it creates ludicrous results when applied to simple things.
If my actions won't, in the big scheme of things, make a teeny, tiny spot of difference, and the Web as we know it is doomed eventually whatever I do, is it moral of me to download those huge film-and-sound files that I might someday like to see, eventually discarding them without even opening them just to get back the local disk space?
But things need not be equal, because there is already a whole lot of taxing and spending going on.