Explore Anything through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like thing. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Anything in a sentence
Anything meaning
- Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
- Expressing an indefinite comparison.
Synonyms of Anything
Using Anything
- The main meaning on this page is: Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other. | Expressing an indefinite comparison.
- Useful related words include: thing.
- In the example corpus, anything often appears in combinations such as: do anything, anything to, anything that.
Context around Anything
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 15 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Anything
- In this selection, "anything" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, say, know, forget, say, definitive and profess stand out and add context to how "anything" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include can do anything with video, t know anything about the, anything else, say anything and unlike anything. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "anything" sits close to words such as range, king and schools, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with anything
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I'll do anything I can to beat you, anything. (10 words)
Don’t give them anything, don’t give the referee anything. (11 words)
He doesn't have to agree to anything or do anything different. (12 words)
Addressing the sequel, which is set to star Paul Mescal as Lucius, the son of Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla and the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Crowe said: “I don’t know anything about the cast, I don’t know anything about the plot. (44 words)
I get that this is your baby and you want to fight for it and you want to protect it and you will do anything, say anything, do anything, go anywhere, confront anybody, but in this day and age, 2018, you can’t. (43 words)
I'm just convinced that video games are a medium like video, like music, and you can do anything with music, you can do anything with video, you can do anything with video games. (34 words)
And they don’t forget anything, so how does their culture shift over time when they don’t forget anything? (20 words)
Are they making anything? whole company was a scam 3 years ago, did anything change? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
I'm just convinced that video games are a medium like video, like music, and you can do anything with music, you can do anything with video, you can do anything with video games.
Anything can be critically engaged with; anything can yield worthwhile discussion; and anything can make you think, feel, analyze and debate.
I get that this is your baby and you want to fight for it and you want to protect it and you will do anything, say anything, do anything, go anywhere, confront anybody, but in this day and age, 2018, you can’t.
Their motives are simple: they will do anything, say anything, profess faith in anything to get tax cuts, deregulation and a little help keeping workers in line.
Addressing the sequel, which is set to star Paul Mescal as Lucius, the son of Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla and the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Crowe said: “I don’t know anything about the cast, I don’t know anything about the plot.
And they don’t forget anything, so how does their culture shift over time when they don’t forget anything?
Are they making anything? whole company was a scam 3 years ago, did anything change?
Cultural, human contacts by themselves will not solve anything, and have never solved anything during history.
Don’t give them anything, don’t give the referee anything.
Government will be able to go after anyone/anything they deem a national security risk and then they can go after anything and everything about them.
He doesn't have to agree to anything or do anything different.
He said that not because in Parliament lawmakers could say anything means that they must say anything.
I don't have anything to say about anything that happened in the past with people no longer at the club.
I don’t think there’s anything definitive that we can point to because, remember,there wasn’t anything definitive about exactly what the lag was….
If the zombie series The Last of Us has taught us anything, it’s to fear anything fungal, so I’m not investigating further.
If you thought he would do anything for his family 10 years ago, you haven't seen anything yet.
I'll do anything I can to beat you, anything.
I’m not telling anyone about anything, I’m not studying anything closely.
In an interview with last month Bad Bunny said when asked about his relationship to Kendall: “I’m not really interested in clarifying anything, because I have no commitment to clarify anything to anyone.
It’s no wonder considering the armies of “communications” people they have spinning, obfuscating, blocking media and voters from talking to anybody who knows anything about anything.
Phrases with anything
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with anything
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- do anything 38×
- anything to 33×
- anything that 24×
- or anything 17×
- anything else 16×
- anything but 15×
- anything and 14×
- for anything 12×
- anything or 11×
- anything can 10×