How to use "something" in a sentence

But there is something I don't know

As I stand on it, I feel something move

But will they realise that something is wrong and go for help?

When I don't arrive for work, Brion After, my boss, will know that something is wrong

I'm a little warmer but I need something soft to put my legs on

I will have to think of something else.

But I need to do something

I must do something to cover more of my body.

As always, the light and warm air make me want to do something

The first person to think something might be wrong was Aron's boss, Brion

I think something might be wrong

But there was something the officer didn't tell them: a person has to be missing for at least forty-eight hours before the police will start a search and rescue operation

When I don't arrive for work, he'll think something is wrong

Just thinking about it makes me want to do something.

It is usually something cold and sweet like apple juice or ice tea

However, the visions tell me something: I am not ready to die

Realising this makes me want to do something while it's still light.

But it's better to be doing something than nothing

Sometimes, that means cutting out something and leaving it in the past

I felt something touch me on the leg

At that moment, I touched something hard

"Professor, may I show you something?"

I felt something small hit my head.

I saw Captain Nemo looking through a telescope at something far away

He said something to one of his men, and the man went downstairs quickly

Captain Nemo was upset about something, and he had the power to tell us what to do

When I woke up, I thought that they put something in our food to make us sleep.

I saw that his men carried something long and flat in a bag

He's angry about something

He loves the sea, yes, but here is something missing from his life

"Is something wrong, Captain?"

I thought there was something more to this

'This key has to open something,' she thought.

'But Alice has to have something, you know,' said the Mouse.

'I know something interesting will happen,' she thought

'When I eat or drink something here, it always does

'Coming, Sir,' somebody - or something - answered.

Everything was quiet for a short time, then something hard hit her arm.

'But how? I have to eat or drink something, but the question is - what?'

'I want to tell you something important.' Alice turned and came back again.

She started to say something

There was something above her head.

'Do something now, or I'll cut off everybody's head!' said the Queen angrily.

Then something happened which was not so good.

And then I told him something that he didn't want to hear.

'You've got to find something,' one of the other men said.

Then all the colour went out of Bubba's face and he said something very softly: 'Home.'

When we got there, he bought me a beer, and he was telling me about the President and my medal when something happened

Then an army man started to read something, and everybody listened

I was just thinking of getting out of there and having some breakfast when the President said, 'Boy, is that your stomach making that noise?' So I said, 'Yes,' and the President said, 'Well, come on, boy, let's go and get something to eat!' And I followed him into the house, and a waiter got us some breakfast.

But - you've guessed it - something went wrong.

The others were talking about something that would happen the next day

'I want you to do something for me.'

'Because you're going to do something to stop all the killing in Vietnam.'

But then I did something stupid again

You're doing something bad tonight

I decided to go home to Mobile, but the bus stopped at Nashville on the way and I went into town for a drink and something to eat

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds

There was something false about his expression of sadness.

'Miss Niner.' I said urgently, 'I have something to tell you

'Mr Sampson, may I ask you something?' he suddenly enquired

So she walked around the wet, cold streets hoping to earn something

A few moments later he noticed something on the pavement in front of Brown's stableyard, and crossed the road

She looked pale, so Amelia gave her two pennies to buy something to eat

It was scared of something

The body on the bed resembled something in a butcher's shop

Did he make a false statement and give a false description? Did he have something to hide?

In Victorian times the East End was also violent, but the Ripper murders were something new

He did not see the boy return a short time later and whisper something to the innkeeper.

Everybody in the town agrees that something terrible will happen tonight

He stared at the coin with a look of puzzlement, as if he were trying to remember something

'We always knew there was something strange about him,' they said

There was something about his eyes, tilled with a strange sadness, that she liked and trusted

The old man left the inn and, minutes later, returned with something in his hands: the beautiful doll from the stall across the road.

'But for a second, there was something about the beggars eyes that reminded me of Javert

But, as the church bells of the city struck eleven o'clock, something made him look back

When he returned, one summer morning six months later, he saw the same couple sitting on the same bench, but something amazing had happened

It was something more than that

However, there was something strange about them: although they all seemed to be written by different people, they were written on the same rough paper in the same handwriting

He moved away from the girl's touch and said, 'I think, Mademoiselle, that I have something belonging to you.' He handed her the parcel of letters.

But Jondrette bent down and whispered something in her ear

She bit her lip and hesitated, as if trying to make up her mind about something

They had only gone a few steps when Eponine stopped and said, 'You remember you promised me something?'

Finally, she kissed the book, held it to her heart and waited for the evening, when she knew that something special was going to occur.

'I'm going to try something.'

Marius murmured something in embarrassment.

They all looked very nervous and excited about something.

'Now you must promise me something for my trouble,' she said

'Well, Gavroche, will you do something for me? I want you to deliver this letter to the address written on the outside.'

He stood up and was going to leave the room when something made him stop

They seemed to be listening for something, waiting for someone to move

'There's something I have to say to you,' Marius told his grandfather one day.

But why don't you say something? Why are you letting me do all the talking? Do you still love me? Oh, I'm so wild with happiness

Despite enjoying an occasional conversation with him, he found something strange about the old man

Marius hugged Valjean warmly, addressed him as 'father' and invited him to lunch, but Valjean shook his head and said, 'Monsieur, I have something to tell you.'

When he refused to kiss her cheek, she began to feel unhappy, afraid that she had done something to offend him

But before I move, I need to know something

I am about to shout again when suddenly I remember something

"Oh yes, that would be very nice!" She smiles, but in the half-light Oliver thinks he sees something strange in her expression.

As he tries to say something, he sees the broken champagne bottle at his feet

And she has deep-green eyes that at the moment are tired and nervous and show something which he does not completely recognise.

Again she waits, and again Branwell thinks that he sees something in her deep-green eyes.

And he remembers something horrible from more than a year ago: an accident on the roads across the moors

"Oh I know," she says, and he sees that something in her deep-green eyes, and he thinks that he knows what it is now

"Yeah, something like that."

Most do not see anything, but one always sees something, and one is enough.

There is something different about him

What he sees inside looks just like from the movies: the clock, the wires and the heavy packs of something horrible and dangerous

Then someone in the crowd says something, and the man looks around

And a police officer helps him to stand and says something about him being a hero.

Peter thinks that for a film there must be something visual about the murder weapon

And in the low, romantic light of the ballroom they both think they see something strange on her back and neck

You are here because when Miss Lee saw her younger sister, she took a pair of scissors from her kitchen table, said something to her sister and left the house

He has to say something to someone, but who? The judge? Maybe.

Maybe there is something we can do to make you forget this? Maybe you can take me for a drink." Then she smiles and takes his hand

Slowly they all come back in, and Nick knows he has to say something

He has to do something.

He wants to say something, but without proof he has nothing, and the judge can do nothing.

No, it is something much worse

You know that you are awake because something woke you.

Or something closer? Something inside the house? The sound of breaking glass? The noise of the front door opening? A voice in the dark?

You know you should call the police, but you need to do something more, something quick.

No, the only thing that is important is something that the church can offer him right now

"First Father, I need to know something

"Father, I need to ask for something from you

there's something I need to get before I can go

There's something about Needles, something about trouble on Route Sixty-Six, and he tries to listen, but the signal is weak.

He remembers that afterwards they were in the hotel room kissing, but then something happened, and she laughed

It was something stupid: something he said or did.

The guy's eyes are covered by silver sunglasses, and there is something strange about his uniform, Dan thinks

Jesus, is this it? Did he really do something to that girl? More than hit her once? Did he do what they said on the radio? Was she dead?

Maybe this is something else, a routine check, a formality

Dan nods and gets out, and he thinks again that there is something strange about the cop's uniform

Only, Fletcher said something about Miss White: something no gentleman should say

But there is something that does not make sense

"Oh, that." And the boy pulls something out of his pocket, and Owen sees that it is his mp3 player.

And Owen knew the boy was interested then, and for the first time in a long time he thought that maybe there was something they could do together

But then they reach another clearing, and they hear something behind the trees.

He thinks there is someone or something moving, and it is big: bigger than a rabbit or a hare, but he does not think it can be a person

But it's a true story, and that's something that's very important to me, and I want you to remember that.

And you know what? It's something that's very important to you too.

And he had something else too.

But there is something very dangerous about Hank Wynn when he looks calm and happy

And Jimmy Lane shakes his head and tries to say something, and his blue eyes are wet.

Did you hear that, Jimmy? So before I take this gag out of your mouth, and before you think about saying something stupid again, think about this

But then he slowly says something as if he does not himself believe what he is saying

She cannot see his face because he has the hood of his sports jacket up, but he seems to be asleep, and there is something about his face that she does not like

He uses something strange: not a knife but something long and thin, and he stabs them again and again, and they just bleed and bleed."

"Did I wake you up? It must be something in my bag

...He uses something strange: not a knife but something long and thin, and he stabs them again and again, and they just bleed and bleed.

that's so sweet of you!" Taste-pots were great, because they weren't expensive, but gave you the taste of something luxurious like double chocolate ice cream

"I have something for you

"Yes." Sala loved painting, but the paints were expensive, so it was something she couldn't do very often.

"I have something for you, too."

I saw something about it, too

It was one thing to have a pod experience - but to stay inside the pod was something else

"Must be something for Gran's garden," she said.

"You seem worried about something."

All at once, she was sure that something wasn't right.

"Gran, I have something for you!"

"I think it must be something for you to plant."

But I don't know how he can afford something like that."

So there was something wrong

"Cham, has something happened?"

When she came back to their table, Cham was watching something on the ultranet.

Climbing is thirsty work." But there was something odd in his voice again, and a strange expression on his face

She tried to think of something else instead

"But Cham," she said, "what if there was a better future - something completely different?"

She decided that they needed to talk about something different, because she'd come here to make things better, not worse.

And I'd wish with all my heart that there was something better for you."

"And remember, Sala, maybe there will be something better, one day

Sala realized that for Gran, the rose fruit meant something real; it spoke of a world that Sala could only begin to imagine

"We'll find something."

It touched hers, and Sala saw that it was already holding something: a little paper note.

But then she saw something yellow on the crowded street ahead: the woman's bag

Sala felt like running away, but something made her keep going

We can wait, can't we? If everything you say is true, we can do something about it then."

"I know you believe in something better than all this

for something to happen.

It was good to know that they could do something to test Eston's letter; but even so, it wouldn't tell them where Wena and Oban's group had gone

Where was Cham, the real Cham? She had to invent something fast

"What do you think? Could the pod be doing something to him? Changing the way he thinks somehow?"

It's doing something to his mind."

Just something..

"I was afraid you'd say something like that."

"Actually, I've got something to tell you all," she said slowly

I wanted to have something of his now that our day was over.

When I ask you to do some shopping, you always forget something

'Is something wrong?'

The hand she placed in mine was cold and heavy, like something dead.

'There's something very quiet and peaceful about this room

Had Beatrice said something to make him angry? I could not remember.

There was something strange about him

'I want something to tie the dog

There was something frightening about that small, dark room

Why doesn't someone do something about it?'

I was glad to have something at Manderley that belonged to me

The sun shone on something metal in the drive

It gave me something to look forward to

'Are you worried about something?' I asked.

There is something I must ask you

I wanted something that was pretty and simple too.

We all expect you to wear something really special.'

'I was afraid something like that would happen,' Frank said at last.

I felt that I was waiting for something - something terrible.

It must be something to do with the ship out in the bay

When we sent the diver down to look at the ship, he found something else

'The man found something else,' Captain Searle answered slowly

'Is something the matter, Captain Searle?'

'Tell Mrs Danvers to order something different,' I told him

'I suppose Mrs de Winter had to go down into the cabin for something

'I would like to say something else.'

And those holes were mad with something sharp.'

Let me think about something else, anything...

'No, no,' he said, coming towards me, 'I've got something to say to Max

I've got something to tell you." '

He has something to say to you.'

If it was something important, she would have told me.'

'There must have been something wrong with her after all.'

'Frank told me something rather strange on the phone

Danny's cries and her response became increasingly shrill and desperate, for they knew that they must reach each other before nightfall or be lost forever; in the oncoming night, something waited for Danny, something fearsome that would seize him if he was alone after dark

Danny, of course, had been writing about something else, and the dark interpretation that could be drawn from those two words now, after his death, was just a macabre coincidence.

As always, he seemed to be high on something, bursting with energy

She was about to head for the den when she noticed something odd about four framed eight-by-ten photographs that were grouped on the wall above the sofa

It was something else, something weird.

She felt a presence, something that wanted her, and she cried out as the door came all the way open.

The person who paid a fair price for something was likely to place far more value on it than the one who got the same item for nothing

There was something peculiar in his eyes, a speculative look, but it wasn't guile

"Home life counts for something

These last few days, as your show's been getting ready to open, I've had the feeling you might finally realize you need something more in life, something a lot more emotionally satisfying than whatever it is you can get out of just producing stage shows."

But the moment that she wanted to be something more than a trophy wife, he rebelled.

It's good for you to have something to dabble in

In fact, there is something

Maybe I'm coming down with something

This was a new thought: the possibility that his ultimate goal was to do something worse than torment and scare her.

"Why? Why did a man like Bill Jaborski do something so stupid as that?"

Why would he do something so dumb, so reckless, as to drive that far along that road in those conditions?"

"But something more."

Do you really think you're so far gone that you could do something like that and not remember it? Do you think you've got multiple personalities and one doesn't know what the others are up to?"

"God knows, I'm not happy about this, but I'm convinced it's something I've got to do."

We respect each other, and I'm sure he'll do something for me if he can

"What if you cooked something for me, and I didn't like it?"

"I mean, I thought it must have been a divorce or something."

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared

He was considerably more formidable than his associate: tall, rough-edged, with large, big-knuckled, leathery hands - like something that had escaped from a recombinant DNA lab experimenting in the crossbreeding of human beings with bears

"You've got something else in mind, and shooting me would ruin it."

The pistol still frightened him, but he was now thinking of something else that scared him more than the gun

"There's something about Danny's death..

something strange about the way all those scouts died

"Hey, if you've got something to do, feel free to go ahead with it

Sitting on the edge of the bed, she read the story again, hoping to see something important in it that she had overlooked in the first reading.

After he retired about ten years ago, he was still a young man, fifty-three, and he needed something else to occupy his time

"We've got proof that something unusual is happening: the silencer-equipped pistol I took off Vince, your house blowing up..

I'm pretty sure we can find a reporter who'll go with that much and write a story about how a bunch of nameless, faceless people want to keep us from reopening Danny's grave, how maybe something truly strange lies at the bottom of the Sierra tragedy

She leaned forward and picked something up from the floor between her feet

As he and Tina walked across the parking lot toward the diner, Elliot couldn't shake the feeling that someone or something was watching them

something..

"See something?"

something more..

as if something I can't see is standing right beside me

"Let's get something to eat."

Ideally, I'd even like to be able to hand the reporter a neat theory about what really happened to those scouts, something sensational that he can hook his story onto."

But it seems to me the most obvious thing we have to consider is that the scouts and their leaders saw something they weren't supposed to see."

"And saw something they weren't supposed to see."

"I just can't believe the government would murder a group of little children just because they accidentally got a glimpse of a new weapon or something."

If they had seen something, they'd have come back with at least a dozen different stories about it, none of them accurate

Killing all those people and trying to fake an accident - that was a whole lot riskier than letting the kids come back with their half-baked stories about seeing something peculiar in the mountains."

The truth is going to be something really terrible."

"You must have done something to it," Al said

It was something very different, something exceedingly strange."

But on the other hand, she was working through Stryker to have her son's grave reopened, which seemed to indicate that she knew something.

That was something one tended to forget when he spent his life in the intelligence game

Suddenly he remembered something important about Elliot Stryker

"You're really something else," she said.

They figure there's something wrong with the little boy's body, something odd that we can't afford to let them see

Or maybe it's something else altogether

And something downright uncanny has happened to your son."

But there's something unusual about the EEG reading."

There's something haunting about his eyes."

"There's something in those eyes..

something there isn't any word for."

Sitting in a bathtub full of bloody water, staring at something fearsome beyond the veil between this world and the next

But she sensed that he'd seen something important, and she wouldn't go easily until she knew what it was

"We'll think of something."

She started down the tunnel toward him, determined to get him out of there - and something reached for her from a narrow cleft in the wall

"Well, bunkum or not, I'm going to try something like that

I'm something of a magician

"Can a couple of people like us really have a chance of winning when we're up against something as big as the government itself?"

He said, "You know something? That problem with the window..

As Elliot started to open his door, Tina saw something that made her grab his arm

Sooner or later, he'd overlook something

My country's far from perfect, but what's been done to Danny Evans isn't something that my country would approve of

"It's certainly something to think about," Morgan said

If they felt they had some terrific new bug that we didn't know about, something against which we couldn't retaliate in kind, they'd use it on us."

And if you've infected yourself with something curable, you'll be treated

That's something a lot of us do during the winter

This is obviously an expensive stretch of highway that must lead to something important and mysterious

'Young man, you must do something fast

Helene was so calm during the investigation that the doctors finally decided she was mad (something I had for a long time thought the only possible solution), so there was no trial

It was lucky that he was staring at the wine glass and not at me, or something in my expression might have frightened him.

'Francois, I want to ask you something,' she said

'Are you saying that you have disintegrated that ashtray, then put it together again after pushing it through something?' I said.

'Drink this and I'll show you something much more amazing.'

My hand shook as I picked it up because I knew by then that something must be terribly wrong

From this hung something long and black and wet at the end.

While we talked about pictures, books and old churches, I felt that Mrs Lestrange really wanted to talk to me about something else

'It was something very different, but I can't say more just now.'

'It must have been after six - quarter past - something like that.'

Your house is next door to the vicarage so perhaps you saw something that would help us.'

And all because it reminded you of something very different, something about a bag of wood for the fire.'

'If a thing reminds you of something else - well, it's probably the same type of thing.'

He said something nice and normal about seeing Protheroe - and I just started shouting

She might know something.'

'Ah!' said Inspector Slack, 'that explains something Mary said when I spoke to her

if Colonel Protheroe had told you something...'

There was something dead about her face

'No, but I expect someone heard something

Would you like to know something?'

That tells us something.'

'And I've found out something else

'Was there was something you wanted to see me about?' I asked.

'I feel that someone might have seen or heard something, and I wondered if you could help me?'

Rose, if Gladdie overheard something - it might not seem important - I'd be so grateful to you.'

I will not allow it." It sounded as though the lady wanted to tell Mrs Protheroe something, and he didn't want her to

But something in me said, 'It can't be her!' Why? And then something else replied, 'Because she's a very attractive woman

Perhaps it has something to do with that.'

I think she knows something and I want to watch her.'

And there, with great excitement, I saw something smooth hidden under the leaves

I just thought something had happened and that was why Mrs Protheroe had asked to see you.'

I have heard something about the death of poor Colonel Protheroe.

I have learned something that I think may be important

I have heard something that is very important

But I have heard of something that I think they should know about.'

Then I thought of something, and I took from my pocket the shiny brown stone I had found in the woods

If only that note had said something different.' She moved towards the window and on her way put her hand into the pot of a rather tired houseplant

'So sorry, Colonel Melchett, but when I heard that Mr Hawes was ill, I felt I must come and see if I could do something.'

'There is, I think, something called a Maxim silencer

I believe that picric acid explodes if you drop something heavy onto it

'He might do something stupid,' I said.

Lawrence Redding was not an innocent man, and so the news that Mrs Sadler had seen him change Mr Hawes' pills did indeed make him do 'something stupid'.

She hoped that she would find something the police had not

She continued, 'You see, Len, I have something new coming into my life

'But it's something more than a meteorite

It's a cylinder - an artificial cylinder! And there's something inside.'

I think everyone expected to see a man come out - possibly something a little unlike us on Earth, but more or less a man

But, looking, I soon saw something grey moving within the shadow, then two shining circles - like eyes

Then something like a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking-stick, came out of the middle and moved through the air towards me - and then another.

He turned, stared, shouted something about 'crawling out in a thing like a dish cover', and moved on to the gate of the next house

I paid little attention to the road in front of me, and then suddenly my attention was caught by something

As it passed it gave a deafening howl that was louder than the thunder - 'Aloo! Aloo!' - and a minute later it was with another one, half a kilometer away, bending over something in a field

Near the top I stood on something soft and, by a flash of lightning, saw the body of a man

Then, and only then, he understood something of the full power and terror of the Martians

As it was reported later, most of them remained busy with preparations in the pit on Horsell Common until nine that night, doing something that produced a great amount of Black Smoke.

As I did, I heard another bang and something flew fast over my head

Towards Sunbury there was something dark, like a hill, hiding our view of the country further away

Because rushing out beyond the smoke and steam came something long and black with flames coming from it.

The Martian was thrown back by the violence of the explosion, and in another moment the burning wreckage, still moving forwards, had broken the Martian like something made of wood

Something rushed up into the sky, something flat and broad and very large, and flew in a great curve

I knew my cousin was brave enough for any emergency, but he was not the sort of man to understand danger quickly and do something about it

Then something - something struggling violently - was lifted high against the sky and brought down again

That night, as we hid in the hall, I felt a great need to do something but could think of no plan of escape

At that moment, I felt the beginning of something that soon grew quite clear in my mind, that worried me for many days

Soon I had an odd feeling of being watched and, turning suddenly, I saw something hiding in some of the bushes

There was something strange about the face, Mr Holmes, that frightened me

I was not very near, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face

'That same night something strange happened! In the middle of the night, when I was not completely asleep, I became aware that my wife was dressed and was leaving the room

Upon my word, Watson, there is something very attractive about that yellow face at the window, and I would not miss this case for worlds.'

I don't remember the name now, but it was something terrible

'However, I am very thirsty and I must drink something.' So he took the bottle and drank some water.

I did something wrong, because I fell into the river

Cat: If you really want something, please tell me.

'Say something! Are you dead or alive? Where is your body?'

He wanted to add something to the stew, too

It gets to London in time to eat something, and then go to the theatre.'

'If something happens, we'll write to you,' we said, telling him a big lie.

'Then it's my duty, a sister's duty, to tell her about something like this

Find out something she wants very much but cannot get in this country.'

'James, there is something much more serious.'

And as they laugh, they know that something has happened

'James, we must do something about it

Mensar-Arthur did go to London and bought something for all his wives and girlfriends

I'm grateful that something put a stop to that

Because they both know it is about something.

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, and yet there seemed to be something missing - I did not know what.

Her mother is a respectable woman but there is something mysterious about her...'"

There stood Miss Fairlie, alone outside in the moonlight, looking exactly like the woman in white! I suddenly realised that the 'something missing' was this: my realisation of the disturbing similarity between the fugitive from the asylum and my student at Limmeridge House.

He wanted to do something to help the poor woman

'I'm afraid that when you so kindly brought my handkerchief to me you probably heard Laura say something very offensive

'A very aristocratic family! Especially on his mother's side!' She stopped speaking suddenly, as if she had said something she did not mean to say.

So! Sir Percival's secret was something to do with his mother! Mrs Catherick said no more

But Emmeline and the other women knew that they had to do something

Her father did not want her to be a scientist because it was difficult for women, and he told her to study something different

"I did not understand it at the time," she said later, "but I believe that little red aeroplane said something to me as it went by." In 1920, a pilot took her up in an aeroplane, and that changed her life

Loveness and Ruvimbo decided that they had to do something about child marriage

I want something to drink."

I am here to say something very important," says Don Diego

There is something I must tell you," says Don Diego smiling

"First, I must explain something," says Don Carlos