"thing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But the most detestable thing about them is that they always have loads of time, and they kill this time.
- Nearly as bad, it seems, was the buffalo gnat, which one traveler called "the most detestable thing in creation."
- I felt he carried off the "detestable yet strangely sympathetic and seductive" thing better than Mitchell, even in the when-Mitchell-was-evil flashbacks.
- As for music, it was the most detestable thing in the world -she wondered that she had never realized it before.
- They were haughty and did detestable things before me.
- I am robb'd, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon me.
- Peredur had done a detestable thing, but remained a very likeable young man.
- What a detestable thing that was, he thought while he watched Adam's hand.
- His advices had included comments like "others will respect you for detesting people who have done detestable things," but nothing about generosity or benevolence.
- The story is set up as the narrator's explanation for why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to them.
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