EVERYTHING in a Sentence

Learn EVERYTHING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

370 example sentences for EVERYTHING, such as:

1. Not everything is meant to be.
2. Nature does not provide everything we want.
3. Take this bag, and leave everything else to me.
4. Children are curious about everything around them.
5. I knew that everything would turn out fine in the end.

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 Meanings and Examples of EVERYTHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
everything
 pron.  all things; all the things of a group or class
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  By "everything" I mean both the various encouraging and stimulating cries with which Russian folk urge on their horses, and a random, unpremeditated selection of adjectives.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  "In everything the will of God, madam," said Chichikov with a sigh.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
3  I myself managed to sell everything from my estate at a good price.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
4  "To everything there are limits," retorted Chichikov stiffly.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
5  Here is the cursed nine upon which, the other night, I lost everything.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
6  In chess there can be neither luck nor cheating, for everything depends upon skill.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
7  Like everything else in the apartment, it bore a strong resemblance to Sobakevitch.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
8  Meanwhile Chichikov again surveyed the room, and saw that everything in it was massive and clumsy in the highest degree; as also that everything was curiously in keeping with the master of the house.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
9  But to everything he turned a dead ear, and the phrases in question might as well have been stones dropped into a pool.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
10  With the former everything was of the antiquated and rough-hewn and ill-fitting and unsuitable and badly-adapted and inferior kind; their heads were full of nothing but discord and triviality and confusion and slovenliness of thought.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
11  Well, he made shift to hire a lodging, but found everything so wonderfully furnished with blinds and Persian carpets and so forth that he saw it would mean throwing away a lot of money.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
12  In the second place, on his rising and inquiring whether the britchka had been harnessed and everything got ready, he was informed that neither of those two things had been done.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
13  Tell him that everything must be put right within two hours at the most.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
14  Meanwhile, don't you trouble your head about what doesn't concern you, but go and fetch a blacksmith, and see that everything is put right within two hours.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
15  In you everything is flat and open; your towns project like points or signals from smooth levels of plain, and nothing whatsoever enchants or deludes the eye.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
16  Children are curious about everything around them.
17  I like to get everything done before the guests arrive and relax for a moment in the calm before the storm.
18  Civilians assume, wrongly, that everything in the military runs smoothly.
19  You cannot automatically assume that everything your teacher says is correct.
20  Just before an attack everything would go quiet but we knew it was just the lull before the storm.
21  No matter how far away forever, I will protect you everything.
22  Take this bag, and leave everything else to me.
23  The bottle had leaked in my bag and everything was sopping.
24  May everything beautiful and best be condensed into this card.
25  Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time.
26  Not everything is meant to be.
27  I knew that everything would turn out fine in the end.
28  Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything.
29  The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything --- or nothing.
30  Nature does not provide everything we want.