How do you use Thought in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like belief or persuasion, plus the exact meaning.
Thought in a sentence
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Thought meaning
- A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
Example sentences (20)
Wilcox added: 'The thought of her actually dying is abominable, but the thought of her dying in pain is unthinkable.
I thought I might as well; I’ve always loved music and I originally thought I wanted to come here for a music degree.
You know, in some cases, it was the idea of, like, hey, I thought it was - I saw - I thought it was about gun rights.
The mum of two answered: “When I arrived at the castle, I thought it looked great and thought the people looked great.
A related CNN poll of 11 undecided voters found that 9 thought Biden had won and 2 thought the debate was a tie.
Every thought that you have is not a thought that I want to hear about myself, but that’s what the world is now.
Every time I try to do my thing, inserting a terrible thought into people’s heads, the thought is already there!
I thought the performance really marked a special day, I thought we were outstanding with and without the ball.
She just thought she was allowed to cancel all of the time because she thought she was the only one with sh*t going on.
I thought I needed to be working harder, working more hours — I thought I needed to be suffering over it more.
I thought, to be honest with you, I thought we had a great prep week, we had a great walk-through last night.
He thought he had done enough to edge the Leeds bout and said: “I thought I had won by two or three rounds.
Consider this context: “If you thought that (note the verb to think), you’ve got another think coming” ie: another thought.
McCall thought it was American singer Donnie Wahlberg, while guest judge Jennifer Saunders thought it would be Marti Pellow.
So when I thought of the Pacific Northwest before living here, I always thought of Washington and Oregon.
If you thought the nonsense of 2023 had come to an end when there’s just over two weeks left of the year, you thought wrongly.
If you thought that tornadoes were the only thing you'd have to worry about in Texas, you thought wrong.
I had my story worked out; I knew what mattered, what I thought was negotiable, what I thought was not.
I always thought I had to be gay because I just thought, like, all guys were evil, but it’s not true.
So I watched a bunch of episodes and I thought, “Wow, this is actually a lot more fun than I thought.
Phrases with thought
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with thought
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thought it 39×
- thought of 30×
- thought that 29×
- he thought 25×
- and thought 22×
- thought the 20×
- the thought 18×
- thought to 17×
- we thought 17×
- she thought 15×
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