How to Use do something in a Sentence

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  • 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
  • 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 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Able to do something, the judge plans to speed up the legal process to help these property-fraud victims.
    Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
  • So to have the opportunity to be able to do something about it, why not?
    Rita Omokha, ELLE, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Now, there must be at least hundreds of thousands of skincare brands launched in the past decade alone, all of which claim to do something new.
    Neha Tandon, womenshealthmag.com, 1 May 2023
  • And yet few members of Congress seem willing to do something about it.
    Andrew Rettenmaier, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • Just make a choice and do something, because it will always be seen by someone that cares.
    As Told To Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Or if a parent smokes and that smoke triggers their child’s asthma, then maybe do something about it.
    Claire Wolters, Verywell Health, 22 June 2024
  • It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
    Karla Pope, Woman's Day, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The agency did not rule out the possibility that the drug might do something.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • My experience is that people want to do something good with their days and months and lives.
    Dede Henley, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Refuse to let hype or people pressure you to do something that leaves you feeling stressed and anxious.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2024
  • Eventually, John works up the courage to ask Judy out to do something Christmassy.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Now, though, those angry players can actually do something about the problem thanks to a new mod that removes the PSN log-in requirement from the game entirely.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024

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