Thing has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. | |
| 2. | Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same thing. | |
| 3. | The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. | |
| 4. | There's no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. | |
| 5. | This is the best thing since sliced bread! I don't know what the best thing was before sliced bread, however. | |
| 6. | A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. | |
| 7. | In fact, love is the only genuinely precious thing in life; it's also the only thing worthy of pursuit. | |
| 8. | An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. | |
| 9. | It may seem like just a little thing to you, but Tom is really worried about the whole thing. | |
| 10. | But what is it that I am? A thing that thinks. But what is a thing that thinks? |