“What is that thing you're wearing?”

“There is just one last thing I need to finish today.”

“The one thing you have in your favor is your confidence.”

“The thingness of a thing precedes the conscious perception of its sensual properties.”

“Despite appearances, the engendering command does not remove them from their fixity, for nothing becomes manifest but Being, though delimited and defined by the thingness of the things.”

“I'm interested that light has thingness itself, so it's not something that reveals something about other things you're looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.”

“Dictionaries alone aren't responsible for the thingification of natural languages, but they crystallized a peculiar modern view of what it means to have a language.”

“I can't seem to find my keys; where did I put that little silver thingy?”

“Because what our man here is really notorious for, of course, is that undersea cable thingy, global whatsis, crossing thingamajig.”

“A conversation I overheard yesterday between two people looking at a Film previews thingy in a newspaper in a cafe.”

“I'm only here to collect my things.”

“We packed our fishing things in preparation for our weekend at the lake.”

“We are optimistic that things will improve within a few months.”

“Various people are taking it upon themselves to subscribe me to various newsletters, email thingies and so forth.”

“I listened patiently to one of those annoying automated response thingies giving me 3 options.”

“Then maybe I'll make a jillion copies of my fake parking ticket thingies at Office Max and give them away to you people.”