Below you will find example sentences with "same thing". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Same Thing in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: same
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 15 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 3 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "same thing" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as but the same thing the french, do the same thing, people, years and different stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with exact same, good thing, same period, same way, same old and same day, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with same thing
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
In the theater community’s the same thing, but money is the last thing. (14 words)
But at the same time, you could say the same thing about other sports, right? (15 words)
Like when Reid and the Chiefs were overly-punished in the Maclin tampering thing, couldn’t have Reid said the same thing? (22 words)
Plato's synthesis Plato 's version of the law of non-contradiction states that "The same thing clearly cannot act or be acted upon in the same part or in relation to the same thing at the same time, in contrary ways" (The Republic (436b)). (45 words)
Derek Meredith told the BBC: "It's happened in previous years, two years ago it happened to us - not as forceful as this time I wouldn't have said - but the same thing, the French navy were there on site and never done a thing. (45 words)
By thinking of any material thing (like a rock, or a person) as being fundamentally the same thing throughout time, with any changes to it being secondary to its " nature ", scientific materialism hides the fact that nothing ever stays the same. (41 words)
Buying a motherboard can be a tricky process, because, on the surface, they all seem to do the same thing -- and if they all do the same thing, why should you spend more money on one? (36 words)
Like when Reid and the Chiefs were overly-punished in the Maclin tampering thing, couldn’t have Reid said the same thing? (22 words)
But at the same time, you could say the same thing about other sports, right? (15 words)
So it's time for us to start using the same tactics as the opposite party, and I'm like, do the same thing! (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
Plato's synthesis Plato 's version of the law of non-contradiction states that "The same thing clearly cannot act or be acted upon in the same part or in relation to the same thing at the same time, in contrary ways" (The Republic (436b)).
The same people who have been coming in for years continue to come in at the same time, order the same thing and sit in the same place.
However, it is impossible to predicate of the same thing, at the same time, and in the same sense, the absence and the presence of the same fixed quality.
Buying a motherboard can be a tricky process, because, on the surface, they all seem to do the same thing -- and if they all do the same thing, why should you spend more money on one?
It’s amazing how you see the same thing when you are seven and when you are 50. You feel the same thing at different ages.
By thinking of any material thing (like a rock, or a person) as being fundamentally the same thing throughout time, with any changes to it being secondary to its " nature ", scientific materialism hides the fact that nothing ever stays the same.
According to Darboe, the same country taking Myanmar to the international court for human rights violation is the same government doing the same thing to its own citizens because those citizens have different opinions from them.
Nearly the same thing happened again on Tuesday when a different solo camper was overwhelmed by wet and cold conditions and used the same kind of Garmin SOS device, from the same outfitter, to call for help.
In the theater community’s the same thing, but money is the last thing.
Like when Reid and the Chiefs were overly-punished in the Maclin tampering thing, couldn’t have Reid said the same thing?
The only thing is that Urbanologi, the brilliant restaurant that was always part of the Mad Giant brewery in Newtown, is not quite the same thing here.
Two people — or billions of people — can have the same thing happen to them, but they will experience that thing differently depending on their viewpoint.
Derek Meredith told the BBC: "It's happened in previous years, two years ago it happened to us - not as forceful as this time I wouldn't have said - but the same thing, the French navy were there on site and never done a thing.
The thing is all those announcements all sort of boiled down to the same thing: 5G is coming, it’s going to be cool, and X company is going to help make it possible.
Vikings quarterback has thrown the ball well this year, but there’s one thing he still needs to clean up, and it’s the same thing that has plagued him throughout his career: fumbles.
When Huck escapes – which anyone would agree was the right thing to do – he then immediately encounters Jim "illegally" doing the same thing.
But at the same time, you could say the same thing about other sports, right?
So it's time for us to start using the same tactics as the opposite party, and I'm like, do the same thing!
And this realization led to the next: the awareness that my kids will do this same thing in the same place again someday.
Besides than that the students themselves will run it through the same thing either getting the same access to the model or by giving a fiver to the ta.