Below you will find example sentences with "say anything". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Say Anything in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: anything
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 3 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "say anything" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 27.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as don t say anything at all, anything or say anything to tarnish, didn, want and don stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with advocates say, critics say, experts say and anything else, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with say anything
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Did he ever say anything negative about anyone or anything? (10 words)
If you have nothing good to say about someone, don’t say anything at all. (15 words)
He said that not because in Parliament lawmakers could say anything means that they must say anything. (17 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)
The final coach to speak on dais at Big Ten Media Days, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, has a whole lot to say, on issues that greatly transcend football, but he didn’t say anything worthwhile during his time at the podium. (41 words)
The way it works is they say, look, this is what you did to me and the mayor comes along and his attorneys said, I will give you this amount of money if you promise you will never say anything. (40 words)
Openly confronting the rancid remarks, Tammy retorted in a TikTok video: "Did your mama ever teach you if you didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all? (32 words)
Did he ever say anything negative about anyone or anything? (10 words)
Aschieris: What would that say about the relationship between China and the U.S.? Does it say anything if Xi Jinping doesn’t show up in November? (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
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.
He said that not because in Parliament lawmakers could say anything means that they must say anything.
Openly confronting the rancid remarks, Tammy retorted in a TikTok video: "Did your mama ever teach you if you didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?
You can’t do anything and if you say something bad and you find out it has nothing to do with our family or my daughter or Vernal or me or even Isaac, you can’t say anything.
Again, the job listing doesn't say anything about Battlefield specifically, but it's impossible to perceive the advertisement as being for anything but that.
Do anything or say anything to tarnish the shield, and NFL players can find themselves searching for employment elsewhere: see Antonio Brown.
I am constantly surprised that people in public positions do not adhere to the golden rule: never put anything in writing or say anything that you would not want to see on the front page of a newspaper.
Did he ever say anything negative about anyone or anything?
Aschieris: What would that say about the relationship between China and the U.S.? Does it say anything if Xi Jinping doesn’t show up in November?
He didn't say a word, and I didn't think it my place to say anything.
I didn’t say anything in front of her boyfriend but rang the next day, when he was out, to say that she should be living somewhere nicer, nearer us, and that he was not right for her.
No one in either film will say the words "will say anything, as all the animals communicate via natural animal sounds.) But no one needs to.
The final coach to speak on dais at Big Ten Media Days, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, has a whole lot to say, on issues that greatly transcend football, but he didn’t say anything worthwhile during his time at the podium.
If you have nothing good to say about someone, don’t say anything at all.
The way it works is they say, look, this is what you did to me and the mayor comes along and his attorneys said, I will give you this amount of money if you promise you will never say anything.
They can put out all the bs they want to say, but you can’t say anything about it.
I didn’t know what Mum would say, so thought it was better not to say anything.
Remember what all your mothers said… If you don’t have something nice to say, you always have the opportunity not to say anything at all.
Secondly, for our own conscience, when something is getting terribly bad, people will say look at that clergy, he did not say anything.