THINKING in a Sentence

Learn THINKING 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.
334 example sentences for THINKING, such as:
1. He wondered if the girl were thinking of it too.
2. But it was not of dead Charles she was thinking.
3. I'm thinking of giving my boyfriend a miss tonight.
4. He was getting excited just thinking about the trip.
5. Simon lay in bed thinking about the meeting next day.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of THINKING
thinking
 n.  the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
 a.  endowed with the capacity to reason
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  He wondered if the girl were thinking of it too.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  "I kept thinking she would," yelled Stuart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  No one could ever tell what he was thinking about, Scarlett least of all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  She had cast down her eyes demurely, her heart beating with wild pleasure, thinking the happy moment had come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Puss, he was glad to notice, appeared to be thinking of other matters as a lady should.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Lots of people said she was still in love with him, but then you could never tell what a Wilkes was thinking about.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Then he lay awake at night thinking of all the charming gallantries he might have employed; but he rarely got a second chance, for the girls left him alone after a trial or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  "I won't," he finally managed to breathe, never dreaming that she was thinking he looked like a calf waiting for the butcher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  She had been thinking of marriage and of Ashley, and she looked at Charles with poorly concealed irritation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  I know what they are thinking, but they never have the courage or lack of breeding to say what they think.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  "He has a lot of money," she was thinking swiftly, as a thought and a plan went through her brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  The colonel would have wired earlier, but Charles, thinking his illness a trifling one, did not wish to have his family worried.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  But it was not of dead Charles she was thinking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
1  Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
2  The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
3  Every ingestion of food can affect our mood or thinking processes.
4  By the age of seven, children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.
5  Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
6  Such thinking is fashionable among right-wing politicians at the moment.
7  Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
8  There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
9  Simon lay in bed thinking about the meeting next day.
10  I'm thinking of giving my boyfriend a miss tonight.
11  She opened the door to her bedroom, thinking how restorative a hot bath would feel tonight.
12  Too many job hunters make the classic mistake of thinking only about what's in it for them.
13  He was getting excited just thinking about the trip.
14  Every day is birthday time when thinking of you,and I shall keep one sublime hoping your many dreams come true.
15  Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else.