How To Use Thought In A Sentence

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted. William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
I thought he had a bit more sense, but no.
Most of this I've written down to get my own thoughts in order before I start draughting letters to the media, but first I have a couple of weeks of university to catch up on… sheesh.

While a video screen adds a few visual puns, it seems almost an afterthought. Times, Sunday Times
He is a bit upset by that, that anybody thought he was wanting to leave just for one half-time where I was more direct with the players than I have been for a few months.
Fred Wye seemed like a decent sort of cuss, Peter thought, too bad his brother wasn't more like him. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
Suddenly I heard a clash of metal on metal which brought me out of my thoughts - I looked up and found I could see two people fencing ahead.
That proviso is a thoughtful message for young moviegoers. Disney's 'Princess and the Frog' is royally charming
Cornwall, the which abbeie Henrie de la Pomerey chasing out the moonks, had fortified against the king, and hearing newes of the kings returne home, died (as it was thought) for méere gréefe and feare. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
I thought I wouldn't get another chance to munge the name "I, Robot" again. June 2007
I thought all my relo's in America were skinny… like the one's here.
Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
If an infant's condition is not as grave as was thought, he will live, and he can then be given optimal care if he has any handicaps.
On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
It seemed to have been shoehorned into the schedules as an afterthought.
One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret.
He thought the thieves would dispose of the shop's stock at car boot sales or use them for family gifts.
Indeed, the chants of ‘York, York, York’ which greeted the final hooter summed up what the supporters thought of their performance and, in particular, their fightback.
Tennis or no tennis, we thought it was a perfectly enjoyable playdate. Times, Sunday Times
They thought he had escaped through a specially constructed tunnel.
Figures due out on November 21 might be instructive but a merger deal is not thought likely to figure in the statement.
I am treasuring up my thoughts of this happy time to give me joy in the future.
Perhaps these dark thoughts are why he can be restless at night. Times, Sunday Times
He thought that it was a dead issue, he had dealt with that.
Another argument that rates will rise is that inflation, long thought dead, has recently resurfaced.
I thought, "Wow, what a good idea".
He always had a habit of going down on one knee to block shots, so I thought I could fake him out of position.
The second version occurs as Corollary 2 to Proposition 7 and was thought of as a method of expanding solutions of fluxional equations in infinite series.
Mom also feels spurred on by the thought that someday Charlie will become aware of her career.
I thought about felting it, but I was not sure - your thoughts?
I thought I had a decent camera but obvs not.
At the time, the Reno Air Races were starting up and John thought it might be fun to take the big Cat around the pylons.
Haven't seen remake, so I think my perceptions of the Wenders flick were relatively uncolored by expectations of what I thought it was ‘supposed to’ be about.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
There were plenty of other chefs to help cook, so the task did not take as long as she thought it would.
Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
But the inward thoughts of men, which appear outwardly in their words and actions, are the signs of our honouring, and these go by the name of worship; in Latin, cultus. Leviathan
After making the sauce, I thought both potatoes and chickpeas sounded good, so on a whim I made a potato with panch phoron side dish -- but next time I would do 2 things differently. Archive 2009-04-01
Very slowly or moderately it was rising, and I thought I was at the estate of a wealthy person for the architecture was very expensive looking.
Ratzinger exercised extraordinary ‘thought-control’ in deciding which works of theologians were orthodox and which were verboten.
Gray is thought to be in hiding near the France/Italy border.
Someone said to me, they thought it was markable that Edna Lewis was a chef during the time when there were few black men and almost no women chefs. Memories of Southern Chef Edna Lewis
Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then). Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
After lying on the floor in a fit of dramatics I realized what I had thought - pinky toe.
Additionally, those people who smoke cannabis are also risking all the attendant problems from the use of tobacco on top of the cannabis and this needs to be thought about too.
Another 20million was thought to be loot from crime such as robberies. The Sun
It is thought the hapless cat had been trying to escape after becoming trapped in a sewer. The Sun
He is never alone that is in the company of noble thoughts.
It is thought officers will name 13 hospitals - including at least one hospice. The Sun
She leaned against the wall, anger and sadness welling up inside her as she thought about what had happened.
I thought the snippety interaction between RDJ and Paltrow was one of the best things about this one, and the saving grace of the first. Iron man 2
The writer has planted his characters in the right thoughts.
Just the thought of going into a fish shop and knowing you can get something that's gluten free with no hassle and no fuss is wonderful.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt.
Who ever thought people would see Arsenal as the acceptable face of football?
thousand of time i have thought of you .my heart is going high into the air and flying with my blessing towards you i don't care loneliness. i am satisfied when you are happy and i am happy when i think of you!
Full well it _shewn_, he _thoughten_ coste no sinne. The Rowley Poems
It was thought highly inadvisable for young women to go there alone.
I took a moment to read what his mind is thinking, but he quickly guarded his thoughts.
It is a matter of intellect, thought, indirect leadership, advice, and consensus-building.
You have predictive thoughts on what it might be and then you have reflective thoughts on what it was. Times, Sunday Times
‘I thought my lads did very well and I was pleased with their effort,’ said Sinnott.
Another one is control of our bodily appetites and thoughts, which we're not so good at, these days.
The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported.
Wizard Apprentice Nicodemus had thought to be the prophesied Halcyon, but is afflicted with cacography, which stuns his growth as a magician. REVIEW: Spellwright by Blake Charlton
Yeah, sure, he thought, and the Bagger doesn’t want to be the first blogger to win a Pulitzer Prize.
He's described as being ‘a wide man, ample girth’ and I thought it would be interesting to play a fat man.
All I hoped is the luck we thought was on its way to Carlow continues on its journey too.
I thought my deathly pale face made me look awful. The Sun
For a split-second I thought he might have a shot at an inside-the-park homer, though a strong throw probably would have nailed him.
Little we thought he should ever own it, or that John would be pointing it out to his own boys, lecturing them on "undershot," and "overshot," as he used to lecture me. John Halifax, Gentleman
Classic poetry and rhetoric give kids a language, at once subtle and copious, in which to articulate their own thoughts, perceptions, and inchoate feelings.
The wellingtonia in Orchard Close is thought to be 360 years old and part of an extended avenue planted to mark the route taken by the defeated King Charles after the Battle of Edgehill.
And the intention of the work is purely propagandistic - it is not to stimulate thought, but to close it down. Times, Sunday Times
Iraq is thought to have sufficient food stocks to last only until the end of April.
I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
Punchinello didn't stop, but in his heart he thought, I think he really means it. And when he did, a dot fell to the ground.
His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.
Whether it is a native cat, previously thought extinct, or an escaped exotic pet, the Beast of Bodmin is a creature that refuses to disappear.
The balance of the population and land and environmental disruption question that population growth cause facilitate the formulation of appropriate thoughts of people.
Whether you love or hate the new Doctor Who, prepare to polarise your thoughts even further one way or the other, if this latest rumour ever comes to fruition. 2010 June : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy
** Ariftotle, "fays Lord Bacon, * 'thought, like the Ottoman princes, cfaat fee cottid not reign fecure, unleis he. deilroyed all his brethren; *' nor was his Hterary ambition more exclufive than exorbitant* The Monthly Review
I thought gluttons were supposed to enjoy themselves.
For the first time that day, a thought suddenly struck him.
Traditional bridal wear combines with theatrical costume and effects to create an entertaining and thought-provoking visual statement.
My thoughts wandered from the exam questions to my interview the next day.
For a long time it was thought to be a harmless substance, but we now have proof/evidence to the contrary.
But as if divining his thoughts -- just as they passed through the dining-room door, Euphra looked round at him, almost over Funkelstein's shoulder, and, without putting into her face the least expression discernible by either of the others following, contrived to banish for the time all Hugh's despair, and to convince him that he had nothing to fear from Funkelstein. David Elginbrod
The thought of that virus wandering about in my hindbrain did not please me.
If you thought weather systems were dull, this is the man to set you right. Times, Sunday Times
We are heartened to see the counter-errorist troops in the SGPS fighting to gain a thought foothold among graduate students. Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics
I thought of biochemistry in our neighboring sciences and of psychophysics, and more recently of psychopharmacology, as examples of fruitful splitting and recombination in our own science.
George Bush developed a policy, he annunciated it in a magnificent speech 10 days after 9 / 11, and then he went into a war in Afghanistan that everybody thought was going to be impossible.
She speaks earnestly, thoughtfully and funnily about how we are all ‘differently abled ‘in one way or another.’
Even now when he thought about it, the air in his lungs seemed to condense. THE LAST TEMPTATION
There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
However, these incidents are not thought to be connected with yesterday's shooting.
Gil probably should have thought about that and realized that a street address with the word rattlesnake in it was most likely a bad omen—that things probably wouldn’t turn out well if they tried living there. Fatal Error
The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
After a thought, Thyrenea unlimbered her MA carbine.
I am computer savvy, and had read other blogs and thought it'd be worth a shot.
We thought that until we do not find a new place for ourselves in a safer locality, we will continue to stay here.
The chytrid fungus is thought to be to blame. Times, Sunday Times
I guess the term webzine is much broader then I thought.
I began to consider crazy thoughts, such as whether we were in some strange power game.
To make a Secondary World inside which the green sun will be credible, commanding Secondary Belief, will probably require labour and thought, and will certainly demand a special skill, a kind of elvish craft. Kicking the Hobbit
The basic, elegant design is already complete; modifying it to improve service will be an afterthought. Total Customer Service (The Ultimate Weapon)
The author thought that the joint negligence principal offender theory can be established, and the negligence abettor or the negligence assist offender is untenable.
So basically, the thought is that this woman is going to start slashing the department, and only the really competent people will remain.
What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity?
Naturally the availability of what we have today was unthought of and in most cases seemed impossible, but most television sets were capable of providing at least up to four basic channels.
A growing body of evidence supports the supposition that the quantitative depletion of mtDNA, once thought to be a consequence of type 2 diabetes, could be a causative factor in pathogenesis.
When I started doing this, I thought, easy-peasy, but it's actually quite difficult.
Quarry workers digging limestone had found bones that they thought were the remains of a bear. Times, Sunday Times
He never thought I was fit to run a shoe shop. Damn right, too!
There is a whole heap of issues that need to be thought through.
While on the subject of that patient, although he does eventually say: Once believed to be rare, the malady, also called celiac sprue, is now recognized more frequently thanks to sophisticated diagnostic tests. the fact remains that fifteen years ago, when this poor lady began her medical misadventures, anyone who even thought of celiac disease would have been -- correctly -- laughed out of the conference room. "How Doctors Think": A Disappointment
Now, two weeks after her visit to Paris Crater, missing Hannah already but knowing that the girl must be safe in the firmary, Ada found herself lost in thought during the carriole ride over the hills to home. Ilium
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Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the universe.
Dalgliesh thought that the design would have been more successful if the fagade had been balanced by extended bays, but either inspiration or money had ran out and the house looked curiously unfinished. She Closed Her Eyes
They sat in a thoughtful moment before a boom of thunder sounded and Jane jumped.
My red lips curl into a crafty little smile at the thought of that suave, devil of a man sitting on the sixty-eighth floor.
He thought the highs and lows of the business cycle would be far more extreme and short-lived than in the past, with sharp spikes up and down.
Thoughts were directed towards home, but there was also uncertainty about what they might do in Canada and what the government would do for them.
And here I thought you would hold it out for me, considering the whole chivalry thing.
Nice to have a squiz at your site and your thoughts. Australia's Own School of Landscape Painting II
People have called me "alm" as in "alms for the poor" in the past, and I thought it was funny how I read it in my head one way and everyone else had it differently. honeychild because honey is natural, durable and versatile. and we are all children -- that child in us never leaves -- the outer casing just grows up and gets older looking. lol LJWorld.com stories: News
Bella could see here there, sitting thoughtfully amongst the bolts of fabric.
I had given no thought to the effect it might have on the unsaved public.
Its perceptual configurations have been thought to have a special relevance to the emergence of formal artistic qualities which cannot be reduced to a measurable aggregate of more elementary constituents.
Some hope, he thought; he'll be cuddled up in that motel on the Cambridge Road with you-know-who like he is every Saturday night. A WORM OF DOUBT
I've obviously become rather cynical over time, but then when it comes to card tricks, my first thought these days is to look for the con.
The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.” No Uncertain Terms
Though unconscious of them, such memories are claimed to be significant causal factors in shaping conscious thought and behavior.
Uncle Shim shared these thoughts both as a courtesy to our family and as instruction to me.
Putting it on skin is thought to help reduce sun damage - one of the biggest giveaways of ageing skin. The Sun
The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
•If you've been following the fate of Men in Trees (ABC, 10 ET/PT), it won't surprise you to learn this now-canceled series — always an ABC afterthought — is being dropped into the network's summer schedule to complete its run. Critic's Corner Wednesday
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.
I thought her speech had slightly sinister undertones.
Update 10/23/09 – the answer: A corn sheller, it was used to remove the undesirable shaped kernels of corn from the ends of ears leaving the large flat kernels thought to be the best for planting. What Is It? Game 112
Agencies that have thought their only remit was to address minority issues must reassess the way they work. Times, Sunday Times
The committee have thought carefully over this plan.
Her thoughtless remark cut him to the quick.
They are sharing, in a companionable silence somehow caught on camera, a moment of profound reflection and thought.
Probably one of those weightlifters from back stateside, he thought.
She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle, and never devoted any conscious thought to him.
The words, the thoughts, came fully formed into his mind through a kind of clammy telepathy. The Day of the Dissonance
He had, somewhat reluctantly R 'shiel thought, agreed with her plan, despite Tarja's objections. TREASON KEEP
By analyzing current teaching status of bench work specialty in middle vocational schools, this paper presents the thoughts and methods to reform the teaching pattern of bench work specialty.
The genetic trawl will not be looking for physical characteristics, such as colouring or height, but at particular genes that were thought to be common in Vikings.
Mr. Brown thought it a good chance to teach his son a lesson.
As an afterthought, the red-headed girl suddenly added, ‘Good gracious, that Adam Weatherly is such a coxcomb.’
Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action.
And about 5 o'clock in the eavning we could see the Yankees a marchen up on the other side of the river by regiments and most all went back from on this Side of the river and General Earley thought that they was all a going back and taken all of his men but a Louisiana Bregaid and started to reinforce General Lea And about the time we had gone 6 miles they come The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,
At the moment, it is thought either to be a Neolithic axe rough-out or the work of a modern flint knapper.
I thought it would be a totally appropriate way of starting off the city's celebration, as a way of showing the 'rootedness' of churches within the history of Hattiesburg," she said. Hattiesburgamerican.com -
His eyes and forehead were enlarged; the bearded chin, and his mouth, which she'd thought so fine, almost vestigial. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Some authors aim at a narrative of drama, skipping the plateaux of family life or inner thoughts and move through a series of peaks of achievement.
Perception, unlike discursive thought or belief, is aligned not with the so-called rational part of the soul, but with the desiderative part. Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology
If you don't understand then you're duller than I thought.
They kept it quiet because they thought it could affect the marriageability of other women in the family.
I just wish to hell one of the bennies was a salary, she thought wistfully. Children Of The Night
The sound of something clinking loudly against metal jolted Chandra out of her thoughts and she looked up quickly.
The thoughtful formality of etiquette is a blessed relief. Times, Sunday Times
The plan has been thought to imply 'insulae' twice as large as those of Timgad. Ancient Town-Planning
Give yourself the love and approval you want and silence your natural instincts to give into the nagging and negativity that can dominate your thoughts.
I thought the mouse was dead, but then it gave a slight twitch.
He thought this was a cheap shot by the chemical industry to divert attention away from pesticides. Times, Sunday Times
He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
But he thought the piece needed more work, and he wanted to get a better feeling for the classical ballet.
Apparently, one anxious publisher phoned on behalf of a distinguished philosopher who'd misread the invitation letter and thought he was required to pay to take part.
From time to time I forsook my own thoughts to follow him, and I followed in amaze, mastered for the moment by his remarkable intellect, under the spell of his passion, for he was preaching the passion of revolt. Chapter 26
He should have thought of that before he got his hair cut like a Frankie Cocozza merkin. This week's new singles
Summon one of the swiftest of the coria and have it wait in readiness," he added, as though by afterthought. The Moon Pool
Before going on stage, I breathe deeply and think positive thoughts.
The Church, concludes the ecumenical patriarch, which by its educational activities instructed the people of God in revealed truth through the centuries, owes much to these schools of human thought, which contributed to man's intellectual and spiritual development, drawing him away from useless preservationism. Spero News
Atlético Paranaense warmed to the aggressive midfielder from the Minas Gerais province, only to have second thoughts. Sandro: 'I told my brother: I'll be the player we should both have been'
She had been so wrapped up in her thoughts that she hadn't realized it was over until Cassie nudged her with her elbow.
It was a movie, and carrell did his own version of max ... i thought it was quite good. Get Smart 2 | /Film
Give careful thought to how to structure your ideas in the essay.
In this sense, mercy can be thought of as the opposite of grace, or perhaps more correctly - the inverse.
She thought and she _thought_, and all she could say was Hillsboro People
It's long, but it's thought provoking in many ways.
I thought I should have fainted; but a torrent of tears recalled the ebbing current of my heart, and I grew proud in fortitude, though humbled in self-love. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
Thought his pain and shame would be lesser, If on womankind he might his anger wreak, THE CALLIGRAPHER
I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer.
Whenever it rained, I thought of Anne Elliot meeting Captain Wentworth, when driven by a shower to take refuge in a shoe-shop. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
Thus the essence of glamour which may be thought of as sex appeal by tantalisation was replaced by ‘in your face’ sexuality.
This "reflection upon itself" part could lead to a theory of subjectivity, that, like Deleuze's "intensities," would manifest, exponentially, more concentrated wave interaction i.e. in itself, in the body; of the body itself, leading to thought? Archive 2005-10-01
We see here clearly how Thomas has appropriated Plato's thought for his own ‘existential’ (in the sense of esse) purposes.
While she waited on the step May thought about Maurice's mother looking at Southport's slug-like sea with mean, jaundiced eyes. PROSPECT HILL
My god, I thought, this guy's bladder must be the size of a basketball.
I thought we had a good system that couldn't be beaten but we had to rejig the company away from stationery and into bespoke printing services.
Despite his occasional protestations of friendship, he disliked England and thought her a worthless ally.

How To Use Thought In A Sentence

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