The word “it” is a pronoun referring to a thing, idea, or situation previously mentioned. Writers use it to maintain cohesion and avoid repetition. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “it” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for It
Nothing at all that I know touches it.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
8 words, 38 characters
Gunn dominated the place, and his vile personality hung over it like a shadow.
Source: Captain Rogers (The Lady Of The Barge) by W. W. Jacobs
14 words, 78 characters
He seemed to say it was not so simple as that; to be really at a loss how to qualify it.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
21 words, 88 characters
You cannot pass it without submitting to the humiliation of calling yourself Mr. Chamberlain.
Source: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
14 words, 94 characters
It would grow up to be a man, a human soul, with a personality all its own, a will of its own!
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
22 words, 94 characters
It was Tars Tarkas, and I could read his thoughts as they were an open book for the undisguised loathing upon his face.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23 words, 119 characters
It was agreed that I was to hold down our claim against the remote possibility of its being jumped by some wandering prospector.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23 words, 128 characters
The watchman related the few details connected with the finding of the body, which he said had been still warm when he came upon it.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
25 words, 133 characters
I quite agree—in regard to Griffin’s ghost, or whatever it was—that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
29 words, 154 characters
As Powell was familiar with the country, as well as with the mechanical requirements of mining we determined that it would be best for him to make the trip.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
29 words, 156 characters
When he returned it was without warning, and I was much surprised to note that he had not aged apparently a moment, nor had he changed in any other outward way.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
31 words, 160 characters
It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
27 words, 162 characters
She was as equipped in this particular as Strether was the reverse, and it made an opposition between them which he might well have shrunk from submitting to if he had fully suspected it.
Source: The Ambassadors by Henry James
34 words, 187 characters
It is true that I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print; but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can scarcely accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
53 words, 285 characters
Upon my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, VA, who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to the public.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
77 words, 423 characters
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