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How to use either in a sentence

40 example sentences · determiner, pronoun, adverb

Either means any one (of two). Example: “You can have it in either colour.”

Examples of either by meaning

determinerAny one (of two).

  • You can have it in either colour.

determinerEach of two; both.

  • There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing.
  • There are roses on either side of the garden.
  • Her hands, long and beautiful, lay on either side of her face.1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 31

pronounOne or the other of two people or things.

  • He made me two offers, but I did not accept either.

adverbAs well.

  • I don't like him, and I don't like her either.
  • I know a cheap Spanish restaurant. It's not far from here, either.

conjunctionIntroduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is...

  • Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room.
  • You can have either potatoes or rice with that, but not both.
  • You'll be either early, late, or on time.

More sentences with either

  • There are, in addition to all the red socks, a number that don’t suit me either.From the entry number
  • Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.From the entry vowel
  • The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.From the entry incorrigible
  • In this study, participants were randomly assigned to either a control arm or a treatment arm.From the entry participant
  • The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.From the entry hawk
  • I can either be your best friend or your worst enemy.From the entry best
  • This is a situation where you either have to deep copy or handle the complication of updates.From the entry deep copy
  • I still haven't seen that movie. I hope you haven't already seen it either.From the entry already
  • He was indifferent to the proposal, since it didn’t affect him, either way.From the entry indifferent
  • Officials in the Firefly administration assure the Sylvanians they don't want war either.From the entry official
  • UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer-shaped) or prolate (cigar-shaped) spheroids.From the entry spheroid
  • Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.From the entry recurring
  • Don't tell them where you are, and try not to give up any clues either.From the entry give up
  • My toaster is on the blink, making either charcoal or cold bread.From the entry on the blink
  • They all had to either accept a bump down to a lesser role or get fired.From the entry bump
  • I dunno the answers to any of those questions, and you dunno and he dunno either.From the entry dunno
  • Either Bart Starr or Brett Favre was the greatest Packer of all time.From the entry packer
  • Vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids must come from either the diet or supplements.From the entry supplement
  • Anglo-Kirghiz mares, now better known as Novokirghiz, produce more milk than representatives of either separate lineage.From the entry anglo-
  • You are either a globalist or a nationalist; one cannot be both.From the entry nationalist
  • He brushed past, doing no harm but not apologizing for his contact either.From the entry brushed
  • Wait 24 hours before overcoating with either this product or a clearcoat.From the entry overcoat
  • She told me to ask so-and-so, but he didn't know, either.From the entry so-and-so
  • According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.From the entry the other place
  • Efforts to decarbonize the automotive fleet are challenging, but no one wants nightmare-grade climate change, either.From the entry decarbonize
  • Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine.From the entry gendered
  • A pantograph can be adjusted to make either scaled or exact copies.From the entry pantograph
  • To either side there are beautiful views from the trail along the ridgeline.From the entry ridgeline
  • The gaslit streets of Victorian London felt much safer than the dark alleyways to either side.From the entry gaslit
  • Death is followed by either ascension into a higher plane or descension into a lower plane.From the entry descension

Meaning of either

  1. determiner Any one (of two).
  2. determiner Each of two; both.
  3. determiner Any one (of more than two).

Full definition of either

Questions about either in a sentence

How do you use either in a sentence?
Either is used as a determiner, pronoun and adverb. For example: “You can have it in either colour.”
What is a short sentence with either?
“You can have it in either colour.”
What does either mean?
Either means any one (of two).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: either (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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