beautiful thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbeautifulandthing
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beautiful
adjective
uk/ˈbjuː.tɪ.fəl/us/ˈbjuː.t̬ə.fəl/
very ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofbeautifulandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbeautiful thing
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That's abeautifulthingto stage and not easy.
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Sometimes you will get writers who learn to write for those actors, and that's abeautifulthingwhen it happens.
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The rebels were like children who had been looking for something to break and realized, as they looked at the pieces, what abeautifulthingit had been.
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Contentment is abeautifulthingand it is fortunately stable in this country.
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You cannot make a pit head abeautifulthing.
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That is abeautifulthing, and a right and proper thing.
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A tree is abeautifulthingin itself.
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But the mostbeautifulthingwe could have would be a strong, robust, and healthy people.
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The damage that has been done progressively is spoiling a verybeautifulthing.
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One forgets that a farm, in itself, can be a verybeautifulthing.
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Many people say that an area without any trees is the mostbeautifulthingthey know; and they say it with complete confidence that they are absolutely right.
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It is a verybeautifulthing.
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What abeautifulthingto say.
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I think that a plantation of spruce is abeautifulthing—nearly as beautiful as a hardwood plantation of beech or oak.
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It was abeautifulthing.
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I am afraid that is likely to happen, because to a water engineer the mostbeautifulthingin the world is a large expanse of water in a reservoir.
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What abeautifulthingit is!
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They are men, women and children who have all the capacity and intelligence to make of life a rich andbeautifulthing.
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That moment of knowing is the mostbeautifulthingever.
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You will say that it is abeautifulthingto take on vengeance on enemies.
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