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How to use thought in a sentence

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The company commander thought the new lieutenant and staff sergeant were scapegoats for superior officers in their chain of command.
The source of the oil is unknown and is thought to have possibly sprung from an old wreck lying on the seabed which has rusted away.
It is now thought by many experts that people experience the world differently according to whether they are right-handed or left-handed.
I asked him, not that I thought Matt was anywhere near that close to being the perfect male specimen.
Intimate behaviour between a couple was thought of as being light-minded and would be frowned upon by the elders.
I've thought that fire ants had killed off most of the lightning bugs like they have the horned toads.
Alas, a lightsabre is not included, nor the ability to chuck scenery at people by the power of thought alone.
In the 17th century, when the barn was just a barn, no right-minded person would have thought it sensible to actually live in it.
How odd, I thought, and went to look out the front to see if they were stopping at our apartment building.
The President's Council on Bioethics is generally thought to consist of a bevy of right-to-life right-wingers.
His rigidity of thought means that this level of teaching must be professionally informed, monitored, and developed on a continuum at all times.
Claudia and Alex are totally different from me and at first I thought I was expected to be like them.
I don't know why, but the thought of him helping her riled me up a little, but I tried to ignore my irrational feelings of jealousy.
Like most children of elderly parents, Mike hadn't much liked the thought of finding a care home for his mum.
But it is also very popular because it is thought to have aphrodisiac properties.
By this time, alarm bells are buzzing like crazy, and I start to resign myself to the thought that I'm not getting it back.
There was one day where he seemed like death warmed up a couple of weeks ago, and we thought the end was near.
We thought, if we could get just one wall, it was likely we'd be able to hold on to it.
At first she thought he would be a hindrance, but it turned out that he had been a pillar of support.
Dad thought himself a pinnacle of strength and a pillar of optimism to guide everyone through the dark times.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She wore black and white and red, and she was frightfully smart, Betty thought.
Thesis, antithesis and synthesis, a Fichtean formula, is generalized by Hegel into the perpetual law of thought.
Indeed it is thought that he wrote it almost entirely from the notes of Forster.
The subtle frier, had thought to haue gotten money of the one, and thankes of the other, and at the ende had nothyng.
The builders thought this boast a fiddle-de-dee, and invited the musician to fiddle away to his heart's content.
Because he thought Harden-Hickey was marrying his daughter for her money, Flagler opposed the union.
This being so, it is worth while to consider in more detail the character of foreconscious thought.
The sensation was, forrester thought with a kind of awe, undeniably pleasant.
To justify and fortify myself I thought how badly my husband had behaved to me.
I didn't try to keep shady, for I thought it began to look like a game of freezeout, and I kept the west side of the street.
I have evidently misunderstood the author's thought and I could not fruitfully discuss it.
Such cases are not so rare as they are thought, though they are seldom so fulminant.
Both have the specific genius of the fictionist and the common sympathies of human feeling and thought in pre-eminent degree.
Roger thought of his torn flag, flapping in the wind on the top of the flagpole.
Out of twenty-four who thought they had rheumatism in the feet or legs eighteen proved to be cases of flatfoot.
Some even thought that neither the presence of infected persons, nor of fomites, was always absolutely requisite.
He has lightened the burden of thought because he has shown us that the chains which we wear are of our own forging.
He thought it safer to join Shane, and Fermanagh was at the mercy of these two.
I thought I beheld in a dream a filagree work suspended by fairies in the air.
An oaken colour, flatted, in accord with the prevailing tone of the panelling in the room was thought most suitable.
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