How to use anything in a sentence. Anything means 'a thing of any kind' (i.e., it doesn't matter what it is) Anyone, anybody and anything are indefinite pronouns
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We use anyone, anybody and anything to refer to both an open, unlimited set of things or people and specific things or people.
He wasn't anything like his father
Anything but by no means She was anything but happy You use anything to emphasize a possible thing, event, or situation, when you are saying that it could be any one of a very large number of things. From middle english anything, enything, onything, from late old english aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
Does it taste anything like chocolate Anything but, in no degree or respect The plans were anything but definite. Anything and any thing are easy to confuse