better thoughts

Example Sentences

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“I have better thoughts of those alligators now that I’ve seen them at home,” he wrote.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018

We have to shift onto a more positive conversational track to start generating better thoughts.

From Time • Sep. 11, 2015

He watches my lips, and I let my words trickle out as softly as his...on the influx of better thoughts.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Then her cheek burned with shame, and penitent tears filled her eyes, as better thoughts came crowding into her mind.

From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Finley, Martha

Finally the better thoughts came uppermost again, and he decided what to do.

From Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various