How do you use the word thought in a sentence

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Here you can find a large assortment of example sentences for the word thought, or in other words sentences that can help you learn how to use thought in a sentence. Learning how to use a word in a sentences can be very helpful, for example when it comes to learning how to use the word in a sentence, in which context the word can be used as well as to learn the true meaning of the word «thought».

Thought in a sentence

Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word thought in a sentence.


  1. I think he thought he won.


  2. I thought, «We can’t do it.


  3. And we thought, We’re rich!


  4. I thought it was wonderful.


  5. I thought it was hysterical.


  6. I thought it was a goodbye».


  7. She was thought to be dying.


  8. I thought I was going to die.


  9. England as not as he thought.


  10. People thought we were serious!


  11. He thought it a tragedy the bomb was ever exploded.


  12. In this he was generally thought to have succeeded.


  13. The Sun was thought of by some cultures as a deity.


  14. Several Asian populations formerly thought to be A.


  15. I thought that was kind of funny and interesting.».


  16. It is thought to have been acquired by the Austrian National Library in Vienna c.


  17. However he thought that «the binding seems to be of the time of Queen Elizabeth»!


  18. They had to rate how much they thought they would like the person in the profile.


  19. These spots are thought to represent lava freshly released by volcanic eruptions.


  20. Unlike his countrymen, Walt thought highly of Thi, and his ability as an officer.


  21. Bullen thought the idea was «ludicrous» so added a scene where David berates Ramona for her drug use.


  22. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that’s what they seemed like».


  23. When first discovered, Sedna was thought to have an unusually long rotational period (20 to 50 days).


  24. I thought, «It would be best for the show if I were to leave.» That’s when I tendered my resignation.


  25. It bore markings different from those of rings found at the wreck site, and was thought to be a hoax.


  26. Young Olga once thought that a hat maker who came to the palace had given her a new hat as a present.


  27. A reviewer for The Oregon Daily Journal thought that Barrymore gave a «portrayal of unusual quality».


  28. This formation is now known as the Passaic Formation, and instead thought to be Late Triassic in age.


  29. The aye-aye and its extinct relations are thought to have diverged first, shortly after colonization.


  30. It is thought that Bening’s work was informed by Gossaert’s panel rather than directly by van Eyck’s.


  31. Napoleon sent Massena to occupy Straubing as he thought the Austrians might retreat along that route.


  32. As described by television historian Jake Austen, «Allen thought Presley was talentless and absurd ..


  33. She recalled, «He said, ‘I thought you’d be one of the first persons to believe in me.’ And I wasn’t.


  34. One Western ambassador thought that the raids signaled «the end of the gallant American effort here».


  35. Holland thought they were all funny, so he created a brief montage intercutting several of the lines.


  36. John Matthias, the jockey of the second-placed horse Glint of Gold, said that «I thought I’d achieved my life’s ambition.


  37. Both Scott and Ramsay thought many of the other unlockables obtainable through Arcade mode didn’t offer sufficient value.


  38. When Clive picked up the play, he thought Rand’s title suggested a fantasy story that would discourage potential patrons.


  39. The purpose of the site was unclear, but it was thought to be some kind of shelter for launching rockets or flying bombs.


  40. Delta and Zeta Arietis were a part of the constellation Tianyin (天陰), thought to represent the Emperor’s hunting partner.


  41. Muscle biopsy can be useful if an episode of rhabdomyolysis is thought to be the result of an underlying muscle disorder.


  42. The injury was not thought serious at the time, but in a study for the British Medical Journal in 1988 the neurologist R.


  43. Brooks also listed it as one of his favorites, saying it «showed we could go into areas no one thought we could go into».


  44. At first, she received government rations for her work, but newly freed blacks thought she was getting special treatment.


  45. Between 18:40 and 19:00 the ship turned away twice from what were thought to be torpedoes that stopped short of the ship.


  46. Hoopoes were considered sacred in Ancient Egypt and symbols of virtue in Persia, but were thought of as thieves across much of Europe and harbingers of war in Scandinavia.


  47. Wilberforce responded that he «felt the great importance of the subject, and thought himself unequal to the task allotted to him, but yet would not positively decline it».


  48. The Sun’s Hill sphere, the effective range of its gravitational dominance, is thought to extend up to a thousand times farther and encompasses the hypothetical Oort cloud.


  49. These domain-swapped dimer and trimer structures are thought to be the building blocks of the disease-causing polymer aggregates, but the exact mechanism is still unclear.


  50. These similarities are known as a grade, and prokaryotes are best thought of as a grade of life, characterized by such features as an absence of membrane-bound organelles.

Synonyms for thought

Another way to better understand how a word can be used is to examine what synonyms it has, and how these synonyms can be used. For example, the word thought has the following synonyms: idea, opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thinking, thought process, cerebration, intellection and mentation.

General information about «thought» example sentences

The example sentences for the word thought that we present on this web site, stems from different official sources. For example one of our sources are articles on Wikipedia that are classified as at least Good articles. But we also use news articles, books and other generic texts to gather example sentences of how the word «thought» can be used in a sentence. To the right of every sentence you will find a link out arrow that sends you to the source of the sentence, where you can access the full text and context for the presented example sentence. This can be useful because some words can sometimes be difficult to understand with only a sentence for context, whereas the full article or text can help you gain insight on how to use the word «thought».

Examples of how to use the word “thought” in a sentence. How to connect “thought” with other words to make correct English sentences.

thought (n): the act of thinking about or considering something, an idea or opinion, or a set of ideas about a particular subject

Use “thought” in a sentence

I never thought it’d be this hard to choose a color to paint the kitchen.
I never thought it’d be this hard to create an iPhone app.
It was much more difficult than I initially thought.
The mere thought of it is enough to make me happy.
She thought she could reform him but she was wrong.
That’s exactly what I thought.
Do you have any thoughts on the subject?
I try to read her thought.
She was lost in thought.

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Used with adjectives:

«Let’s think happy thoughts about the situation.«
(happy, good, positive)

«I’ve been having some bad thoughts about this trip.«
(bad, awful, depressing, disturbing, negative, scary, sad, terrible)

«A strange thought came over me.«
(strange, weird, unusual)

«That was my first thought.«
(first, initial, next)

«Would you like to share your private thoughts with me?«
(private, inner, innermost)

Used with verbs:

«Let me know your thoughts.«
(know, hear, have)

«Let’s share our thoughts about the movie.«
(share, discuss)

«She went for a walk to clear her thoughts.«
(clear, collect, gather)

Used with prepositions:

«She was scared at the thought of going to the dentist.«
(of)

«What are your thoughts on the political situation?«
(on, about, toward, of)

Synonym: attention, care, concern, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, idea, indulgence, meditation, notion, reasoning, reflection, regard, thinking. Similar words: a thought, thoughtful, forethought, deep in thought, at the thought of, thoughtfulness, though, as though. Meaning: [θɔːt]  n. 1. the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about 2. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully 3. the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual 4. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty. 

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(1) What I have done is due to patient thought

(2) The wish is father to the thought

(3) Thought is the seed of action. Sentencedict.com 

(4) Proverbs are the cream of a nation’s thought

(5) One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret. 

(6) Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions. 

(7) Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. 

(8) Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. 

(9) It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable. 

(10) Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. 

(11) In scandal, as in robbery,the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. 

(12) Law is the crystallizaton of the habit and thought of society. 

(13) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt. 

(14) He thought for a moment before replying.

(15) We never thought of demagoguing the event.

(16) They thought the religious sect was guilty of brainwashing.

(17) The telephone rang and interrupted my train of thought.

(18) I thought he would change after we got married.

(19) Have you given any thought to your future?

(20) For a moment I thought I was having hallucinations.

(21) I thought you were mocking me.

(22) The housing shortage is more acute than first thought.

(23) Sorry, I thought you were someone else.

(24) The solicitor’s advice gave me food for thought.

(25) It was thought appropriate to award her the prize.

(26) The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. 

(27) Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. 

(28) The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of time. 

(29) Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and more than all, must be prayed for. 

(30) Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought

More similar words: a thought, thoughtful, forethought, deep in thought, at the thought of, thoughtfulness, though, as though, although, even though, thorough, ought, throughout, sought, fought, bought, thoroughly, drought, ought to, wrought, brought, lighthouse, through to, overwrought, through thick and thin, bough, rough, cough, tough, dough. 

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noun

the product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought.

a single act or product of thinking; idea or notion: to collect one’s thoughts.

the act or process of thinking; mental activity: Thought as well as action wearies us.

the capacity or faculty of thinking, reasoning, imagining, etc.: All her thought went into her work.

a consideration or reflection: Thought of death terrified her.

meditation, contemplation, or recollection: deep in thought.

intention, design, or purpose, especially a half-formed or imperfect intention: We had some thought of going.

anticipation or expectation: I had no thought of seeing you here.

consideration, attention, care, or regard: She took no thought of her appearance.

a judgment, opinion, or belief: According to his thought, all violence is evil.

the intellectual activity or the ideas, opinions, etc., characteristic of a particular place, class, or time: Greek thought.

a very small amount; a touch; bit; trifle: The steak is a thought underdone.

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Origin of thought

1

First recorded before 900; Middle English thoght, Old English (ge)thōht; cognate with Dutch gedachte; akin to thank, think1

Words nearby thought

Thotmes I, Thotmes II, Thotmes III, thou, though, thought, thought disorder, thought experiment, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, thought leader

Other definitions for thought (2 of 2)


verb

simple past tense and past participle of think1.

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What are other ways to say thought?

A thought is a single act or product of thinking. How is this word different from idea, conception, and notion? Learn more on Thesaurus.com.

Words related to thought

attention, hope, logic, reflection, speculation, thinking, understanding, anxiety, assessment, belief, concern, conclusion, dream, expectation, feeling, image, intention, judgment, knowledge, notion

How to use thought in a sentence

  • Beyond spaces for each day of the week, this model also includes extra lines for jotting down random thoughts or ideas and to-do lists, and you can feel accomplished by tearing and tossing each week’s sheet.

  • DeLeon offers several thoughts on solutions to these long-standing issues in her write up on the data on the Moz blog that I highly recommend reading.

  • Making decisions is a part of every job, but something we often do without much thought.

  • In America, somebody referred to me very recently as a model minority, and I literally scoffed at the thought.

  • Other times, I’d be hiking for hours in the dark and I’d be really in my own head and kind of exploring all these thoughts without really having to wrap them up any time soon.

  • In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

  • Rates are thought to be similar in developed countries around the world.

  • Not only had the iconic comedian sexually assaulted many, many women, Maher argued, “I never thought he was funny.”

  • Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!

  • I enjoyed it, but thought it paled in comparison to their debut.

  • Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.

  • He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

  • To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.

  • There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

  • «Better so,» was the Senora’s sole reply; and she fell again into still deeper, more perplexed thought about the hidden treasure.

British Dictionary definitions for thought


verb

the past tense and past participle of think

noun

the act or process of thinking; deliberation, meditation, or reflection

a concept, opinion, or idea

philosophical or intellectual ideas typical of a particular time or placeGerman thought in the 19th century

application of mental attention; considerationhe gave the matter some thought

purpose or intentionI have no thought of giving up

expectationno thought of reward

a small amount; trifleyou could be a thought more enthusiastic

kindness or regardhe has no thought for his widowed mother

Word Origin for thought

Old English thōht; related to Old Frisian thochta, Old Saxon, Old High German githācht

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Other Idioms and Phrases with thought


see food for thought; lost in thought; on second thought; penny for your thoughts; perish the thought; train of thought. Also see under think.

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Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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