The word “this” is a pronoun, determiner, or adverb used to refer to something close in time, space, or context. The examples below show how “this” is used in authentic sentences.
Real Sentences
I trust I give no offence to the companion of my youth, in submitting this proposition to his cooler judgement?
Source: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20 words, 111 characters
I have never told this story, nor shall mortal man see this manuscript until after I have passed over for eternity.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21 words, 115 characters
And because of this conviction I have determined to write down the story of the interesting periods of my life and of my death.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 127 characters
The instructions impressed upon me that I must personally see that this was carried out just as he directed, even in secrecy if necessary.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 138 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog-personality was precious, to whom these hog-squeals and agonies had a meaning?
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
29 words, 160 characters
For some reason this news did not surprise me, but I hurried out to his place as quickly as possible, so that I could take charge of the body and of his affairs.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
33 words, 161 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
His further instructions related to this manuscript which I was to retain sealed and unread, just as I found it, for eleven years; nor was I to divulge its contents until twenty-one years after his death.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
36 words, 204 characters
As soon as I reached comparatively level ground I urged my mount into a canter and continued this, where the going permitted, until, close upon dusk, I discovered the point where other tracks joined those of Powell.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
37 words, 215 characters
Captain Carter had a small but beautiful cottage, situated on a bluff overlooking the river, and during one of my last visits, in the winter of 1885, I observed he was much occupied in writing, I presume now, upon this manuscript.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 words, 230 characters
Possibly the suggestions which I gained upon Mars, and the knowledge which I can set down in this chronicle, will aid in an earlier understanding of the mysteries of our sister planet; mysteries to you, but no longer mysteries to me.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 words, 233 characters
I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
52 words, 239 characters
The younger of the other men, it afterwards appeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, temporarily relinquished, submitting easily in this interest to Mrs. Lowder’s parting injunction not to sit too tight.
Source: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
45 words, 276 characters
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