"thing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They may be insubstantial things," he said.
- The three ptera combined would mass no more than Orn alone, for they were insubstantial things despite their monstrous wingspan.
- Water seemed such an insubstantial thing.
- It was difficult to sleep with the thought that a thousand mysterious deaths lay all about, separated from him only by that insubstantial thing, time.
- Time," said the Speaker, "time is such a fleeting, insubstantial thing.
- Entities without wings, insubstantial as dreams, you ephemeral things, you human beings:
- As he explained, a sequin on its own is a tiny, insubstantial thing.
- In space even insubstantial things could-- The idea was so simple it startled him.
- The words represented such an insubstantial thing.
- Once he was a Jedi Knight, fighting against things so dark and insubstantial he could not identify them.
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