It

//ɪt//

"It" in a Sentence (88 examples)

Today is June 18th and it is Muiriel's birthday!

Is it a recent picture?

I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.

If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

It is unfortunately true.

It doesn't surprise me.

It depends on the context.

It would take forever for me to explain everything.

It would be something I'd have to program.

I may be antisocial, but it doesn't mean I don't talk to people.

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Take this book and put it on the shelf.

Take each day as it comes.

I found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.

It is not a pen. It is a book.

The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.

She took the baby and held it in her arms.

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.

I could only encourage Mrs. Clements to speak next of Anne's early days […] "There was nobody else, sir, to take the little helpless creature in hand," replied Mrs. Clements. "The wicked mother seemed to hate it—as if the poor baby was in fault!—from the day it was born. My heart was heavy for the child, and I made the offer to bring it up as tenderly as if it was my own." "Did Anne remain entirely under your care from that time?" "Not quite entirely, sir. Mrs. Catherick had her whims and fancies about it at times, and used now and then to lay claim to the child, as if she wanted to spite me for bringing it up.

The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.

All these things inclined her, step by step, to submit to the new discovery, whether Queen Victoria's or another's, that each man and each woman has another allotted to it for life, whom it supports, by whom it is supported, till death them do part.

She had never seen that each human being was different, would react differently, had its own peculiar idiosyncrasies.

"[…] It's my belief that you don't know your own mind." "I don't, dear," said Hulda, nestling to him. "Why, what a puss it is!" cried Sir Philip, kissing her tenderly.

1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl She caught my eye, and laughed. “What a funny girl it is!” she cried. “You are so comical! But it isn't the least use your trying to frighten me. I can see the twinkle in your big black eyes; and I like you in spite of your trying to be horrid. Do you know, I liked you from the first moment I saw you.”

WILLIAM: You don't like me better? CLARA: Indeed I do. WILLIAM (laughing): Well, what a dear girl it is. CLARA (flinging her arms around his neck with suddenly disclosed passion): Oh, I do love you!

1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Next morning bought her [a drag queen] breakfast & she asked for a couple dollars to get a drink. Gave her $3, walked her to a bar. […] Some teenage boys watched us walking & began shouting. When I left her at the bar door & kissed her goodbye, they began shouting "Ugh! You kissed it!!"

"Oh, don't be silly. I am neither male nor female. I'm a farfel." […] "It. Refer to me as an it." "That seems pretty rude," I said nervously. "Not as rude as calling me a he or a she," it said.

The individual known as Maia Arson Crimew was born as Tillie Kottmann on 7 August 1999 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kottmann/Crimew has expressed on its website a desire to be referred to by ‘it’ pronouns (Crimew 2021), so this article will interchangeably refer to it by its preferred terms as either ‘Maia Arson Crimew’ or ‘it’. Crimew is a well-known figure among hacking and cybersecurity circles. It has either taken credit for or been attributed to hacks from several major multinational corporations, including […]

It's me, John.

Somebody wanted a drink, didn't they? Who was it?

It is I, your king.

It is nearly 10 o’clock.

It’s 10:45.

It’s very cold today.

It’s lonely without you.

It seems so.

It blew all night.

stick it out

After all these years, she still has it.

Later that night, a friend told Brady, “Still got it.” “Never lost it,” he replied. THAT WAS MOSTLY TRUE. But the 2013 season ended with the Patriots coaches wondering whether Brady's skills were in a subtle but irrevocable decline […]

I caught them doing it.

Are you getting it regularly?

Is man really the only animal who does "it" face to face?

The great advantage of English public school life lies of course in the quality of tutelage it provides. Adrian had received a decent and broad English education in the area of his loins. […] He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally – focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented.

'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street

And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.

It’s not worth talking to you.

It is easy to see how she would think that.

"I know now!" said I. "I have seen this in your face a long while." "No; have you really, my dear?" said he. "What a Dame Durden it is to read a face!"

It was felt that I'd be the right man for the job.

I find it odd that you would say that.

It is hard seeing you so sick.

He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.

It is not clear if the report was true.

She made it clear what she expected by the weekend, which made it a problem to juggle her and other customers' jobs at the same time.

Are there more students in this class, or is this it?

That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.

In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it [= it which] wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].

That which groweth of it owne accord of thy haruest, thou ſhalt not reape, neither gather the grapes of thy Uine vndreſſed: for it is a yeere of reſt vnto the land.

His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. "I'm surprised at you, James," he remarked severely. "A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it: an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…"

Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.

In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it

Tag, you're it!

When you play hi-spy, and are “it,” and want to know where the others have hid, take a stick and put it up on end and let it fall. If it falls three times in the same direction, that shows you the way to go to find the hiders.

When there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its.

Let's play it at breaktime.

Man, he's really got it.

She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.

Bro, that shirt is not it.

OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.

She really has it going on.

For Groddeck, the it is given, unknowable, and he does not try to conceptualize drives or forces. Early life and sexuality permeate […]

[…] thus reversing the roles of the I and the it, the former now occupying the place of the latter and vice versa. An awareness of our bisubjective nature (it and me) requires thus an I as a third term that slides between […]

Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it" bag.

With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.

These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!

(Our culture's “it”-novelist, Sally Rooney, is instead tellingly God-obsessed.)

Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?

Sources tell WIRED that Bobba, Coristine, Farritor, and Shaotran all currently have working GSA emails and A-suite level clearance at the GSA, which means that they work out of the agency’s top floor and have access to all physical spaces and IT systems, according a source with knowledge of the GSA’s clearance protocols.

Georg Groddeck believed in man's innate urge to symbolize. […] kind of defenses that interfere with the free creation of the It. But it would be wrong to call Groddeck an artist (which he was) as opposed to a clinical observer […]

[…] between the Tao and Georg Groddeck's "It", in Durrell's view, compare for example Lawrence Durrell, "Studies in Genius: IV — Georg Groddeck," Horizon 17.102 (1948) : 392. And what of the It? Groddeck does not claim that […]

I wanted to better understand the concept of the It in Georg Groddeck's Book of the It (1923). Groddeck never clearly defined the It, but it was virtually synonymous with the forces of the id. In fact Freud (1923) derived the word Id from It.

I believe that Freud was mistaken when he made the It into an agency without accounting for how the unconscious portion of the I performs the executive functions of object choice for the drives and competing unconscious material […]

After selling more than three million copies worldwide of their self- titled 2004 debut, and becoming the new It band, Franz Ferdinand lent songs to both commercials (including "Take Me Out" for Sony's PSP) and art-house porn ...

[…] when I remember I can't admit that Bo and Brandon are my boyfriends. One Bellini brother would be okay. Two, apparently, makes me a little too PG-13 for the tweenies. The Bellini Brothers are the new It boy band, ...

People will often tell you that you shouldn't buy this season's It bag, dress, or whatever a celebrity has recently been photographed wearing because (a) you will be deemed to be a fashion victim, (b) everyone else will have it ...

This may seem an odd choice for the former It Girl (and the mother of the new It Boy), but […]

Since, as rock critic Georgia Christgau said at the 2008 EMP Pop Conference, “[Willis] cared less about rock than she did about movements,” covering the new It band was just not that important to her. As her daughter, I have received an ...

“He said I'll go from being this season's villain to being this season's It girl.”

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