How to Use do something in a Sentence

do something

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  • The question is: Will the Rox learn from the Sox and do something about it?
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 4 July 2025
  • Put the cameras away and do something out of the goodness of your heart.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Because for people like us or the first to do something, the job is not to be the first.
    — ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Maybe Trump could do something, but not from New York City.
    — EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • So try to do something kind for yourself in the process of grieving.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2024
  • So try to do something kind for yourself in the process of grieving.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
  • So try to do something kind for yourself in the process of grieving.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2024
  • So being able to go back and do something in Egypt was just a dream come true.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • So last year, New York City became the first place in the country to do something about it.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • His game has worked for him so far, so just come up here and do the same thing, don’t try to do something else.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Make plans to do something that lowers stress, puts a smile on your face and brings you joy.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Investors need to fight the urge to do something when there is market chaos.
    — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The man plans to do something nice for his family and then save the rest of his winnings.
    — Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 14 May 2024
  • Ready to do something about it now that the bitter cold is behind us?
    — Kc Property Group, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The producers came to me and wanted to do something new.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 11 June 2023
  • Lewis Strauss was in a position to do something about it.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • Then there’s the fact that the Warriors must do something, anything, to get Poole going.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2023
  • But if Moayed could do something as an actor that he’s never had a chance to?
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 23 May 2023
  • Just try to do something to distract you from any troubles.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Now Brooke Welch has a chance to do something her brother didn’t — win a state title.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
  • The scale of the problem is putting more pressure on officials to do something about it.
    — Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Tall, thin, with short white hair and a lilt to his speech, Ditlevsen is a climate physicist who tried to do something bold.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • The fold-out pages do something of the same, spreading out like the wings of a butterfly, and opening like petals of a flower.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2024
  • To some, the sea seemed too large, too immutable, to do something so meek as disappear.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • And also to do something outside of drinking or going out.
    — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • To just do something that takes place in an office seemed much just very reductive.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Consider setting aside grandiose ambitions for the moment and taking a break to do something active with your hands.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Because somebody will be mad at somebody and somebody going to want to fight, somebody’s going to want to do something.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Tanner Jeannot decided to do something about it.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • So, some president was going to do something about it.
    — ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026

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