STUFF in a Sentence

Learn STUFF from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

159 example sentences for STUFF, such as:

1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
2. I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
3. Ah kain have you buy dat stuff yo'seff.
4. He carts all sorts of useless stuff about.
5. His love letters were hot stuff, apparently.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUFF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stuff
 n.  a substance, especially when you do not know or say exactly what it is
 n.  someone's skill or great abilities
 v.  completely fill a container with something
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  She wore her usual dress of darkish stuff, and there was no bow at her neck; but through her hair she had run a streak of crimson ribbon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Leaning forward, he touched the farther end of the strip of brown stuff that she was hemming.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  Cautiously he slid his hand palm-downward along the table till his finger-tips touched the end of the stuff.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  He saw a scarcely perceptible tremor cross her face, and without knowing what he did he stooped his head and kissed the bit of stuff in his hold.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
6  Melly sold useless stuff to men who could have no possible use for it as quietly and serenely as a shopkeeper, and Scarlett patterned her conduct on Melly's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Atlanta people tried to think that the men who sold such stuff to the government must be contract holders from Alabama or Virginia or Tennessee, and not Georgians.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Miss Scarlett, they burned about a half-mile of stuff we had piled up there along the tracks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  But the way I figured it, all that stuff wouldn't do the Yankees a bit of good.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  Everybody needed beds and china and mattresses and I sold them cheap, because I figured it was about as much other folks' stuff as it was mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  But I cleared money on it and bought some more stuff and the store just went along fine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  Ah kain have you buy dat stuff yo'seff.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  I used to buy some of the stuff for my house from him and he always treated me pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
14  If we're all the raw stuff of the cosmic effects, one would rather be the fire that tempers a sword than the fish that dyes a purple cloak.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
15  She glared, while he uneasily petitioned, "That's great stuff."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
16  It's your turn to sing now, so do your stuff.
17  I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
18  The chairs were covered in some sort of plastic stuff.
19  Just dump your stuff over there-we'll sort it out later.
20  Don't sweat the small stuff.
21  We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.
22  I've got some stuff to do at home, so I'm going to buzz off now.
23  His love letters were hot stuff, apparently.
24  She is squirreling the stuff away in one of the closets.
25  All that stuff she has been saying about Lee is rubbish.
26  They say at the end of your life, you regret the stuff you didn't do more than the stuff that you did.
27  He's moved most of his stuff; there are just a few odds and ends left.
28  Their music was a mix of old stuff and selections from the new album.
29  He carts all sorts of useless stuff about.
30  We're using the shed as a temporary store for all our stuff.