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Sentence examples for that. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

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That was a way she had.

There was no need of that.

That doesn’t do us any good.

They all came just like that.

Liking that made her feel funny.

This idea is that we’re Nordics.

That ought to cinch it for them.

Please, please don’t be that way!

It was funny going along that road.

No, that was very, very exceptional.

The men were just home that was all.

A log like that will burn all night.

He had never thought of that before.

You’ve seen the guys that get married.

That damn big buck Jimmy,” said A. J.

That was when I was a kitchen Corporal.

That bonehead will do him a lot of good.

They drank all that was in their glasses.

That is what is happening when she screams.

He felt sick about saying goodbye like that.

“Don’t talk that way, Dick,” the doctor said.

“To bust off that Marge business,” Bill said.

Remember her mother and that guy she married.

That doesn’t make any difference,” Bill said.

It is the one country that everyone is sure of.

“What are you doing that for?” asked the doctor.

“She’ll blow like that for three days,” Bill said.

“Pull back that quilt, will you, George?” he said.

That night Charley Wyman stayed to supper at Smith’s.

“I’ll put some peroxide on that, George,” the doctor said.

She liked it very much that he didn’t look like a blacksmith.

He had been like that since about four o’clock in the morning.

I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.

He had always thought it was solitary drinking that made drunkards.

They did not even remember that he was middleweight boxing champion.

Ag wrote him many letters that he never got until after the armistice.

“I hate that word ‘hulking,’ ” objected Tom crossly, “even in kidding.”

The woman in the kitchen motioned to the doctor that the water was hot.

She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.

He had noticed while looking into the fire that the fire was dying down.

“There. That gets it,” said his father and put something into the basin.

Do you remember when they got going that once before they had the train wreck?

The rain stopped as Nick turned into the road that went up through the orchard.

I can’t really believe that anyone would do a thing of that sort intentionally.

It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.

It was such a sharp, aching, hurting feeling that she thought she couldn’t stand it.

He looked across the bay to the hills that were beginning to sharpen against the sky.

It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.

Dear, I don’t think, I really don’t think that anyone would really do a thing like that.

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