How to Use do anything in a Sentence

do anything

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Definition of do anythingnext
  • Why not ask why their parents failed to teach them not to do anything stupid and life-threatening?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
  • None of them appeared to do anything, except, perhaps, provide a place to hide money or prop up a scheme.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
  • Yet foreign governments are in no position to do anything about it.
    — Michael Kugelman, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But the former president has by and large been careful not to do anything that takes the focus off the Biden crisis.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 10 July 2024
  • Hoda Kotb would do anything to see her daughter perform — including running around New York City all morning.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Shell isn’t planning to do anything of the kind, of course.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • The big idea was that if a panda could high-kick, the rest of us could do anything.
    — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That appears to be the theme of this year’s Cubs, who can’t seem to do anything easy.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2024
  • Just because that's the way it's been done, that's no excuse to do anything.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 May 2023
  • Do not smoke, use a lighter, strike a match or do anything that may create a spark.
    — Dalia Faheid, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • If May 19th had asked him to do anything risky, Bisson would have.
    — Margret Grebowicz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Its whole job was not to connect to the state internet, not to use email, not to do anything.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 July 2024
  • And my dog was as big as hers and my dog cannot get a grip on wooden stairs with their nails to do anything.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • The Rangers don’t have to do anything extra to compensate for the loss of deGrom.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
  • For the first three months, Roach couldn’t do anything more physical than walk and lift five pounds.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
  • And the press doesn't do anything in defense of this journalist.
    — David Biller and Tatiana Pollastri, ajc, 6 May 2023
  • And the press doesn’t do anything in defense of this journalist.
    — David Biller and Tatiana Pollastri, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • But the truth is, neither of them really wants to do anything that's hard.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 28 May 2023
  • This blocks audio news programs but doesn’t do anything about the News card.
    — Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 8 May 2023
  • My phone was taken away from me for months, and I wasn’t allowed to do anything besides go to school.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 4 July 2023
  • Who would do anything—including drop his best friend—to win you over?
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 May 2024
  • The parents never do anything about it and never offer to help clean up the mess their kids leave.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Certainly not going to do anything that hurts the team.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The government has pressured the platforms not to do anything.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • And as for trying to do anything to improve the lives of the American people—i.e., doing their jobs?
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Nobody was talking to me, or would hang out after shows, or do anything.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
  • If so, few expected the release to do anything to stem the bombardment that has left many sleeping on the roads.
    — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • And then showed it to a few friends but didn’t really do anything with it until years later.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
  • And does voting for them do anything to diversify the Hall?
    — Allyson McCabe, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
  • If David Reiss transfers to David Reiss, that doesn’t really even do anything.
    — Curbed, 29 Sep. 2023

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