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How to use he in a sentence

40 example sentences · pronoun, determiner, noun

He means a person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied. Example: “That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.”

Examples of he by meaning

pronounA person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.

  • That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.

pronounThey; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).

  • The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
  • First, to avoid the cumbrous ‘he or she’ and ‘his or hers’, and the ungrammatical ‘they’ when used in the singular, I have mostly stuck to saying ‘he’ or ‘his’.[2010, Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, The Rule of Law, Penguin Books, →ISBN, Preface, page ix

nounA male.

  • Is your cat a he or a she?

nounThe name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

  • This Nehama claimed that in his own hand he recognized the consonant “he” of his Hebrew language, and in the letter “vav” his own male soul.1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 7

interjectionAn expression of laughter.

  • "He, he! he, he! . . . he, he!" chuckled the bottle, "the text tale I'm going to tell you in a very funny one.1921, Norman Davey, The Pilgrim of a Smile, page 247

More sentences with he

  • He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.From the entry book
  • After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.From the entry nonsense
  • He often brings up current events in conversation to spark debate.From the entry current events
  • After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.From the entry trade
  • He withdrew money to his bank account after several years of trading stocks on E-Trade.From the entry trade
  • I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal.From the entry deal
  • He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.From the entry merchandise
  • He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.From the entry head
  • One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.From the entry name
  • Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.From the entry name
  • He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.From the entry abandon
  • Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.From the entry abandonment
  • He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.From the entry abdomen
  • His face went ablush after realizing he had spoken out of turn.From the entry ablush
  • After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels.From the entry on
  • He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour.From the entry on
  • Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.From the entry odd
  • He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.From the entry accordingly
  • “Dum de dum, dum de dum”, he hummed as he sauntered down the road.From the entry de
  • Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.From the entry color
  • He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.From the entry die
  • In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.From the entry in
  • He ran to the edge of the swimming pool and dived in.From the entry in
  • He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.From the entry birth
  • He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.From the entry can
  • She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.From the entry one
  • He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.From the entry bit
  • I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.From the entry because
  • Johnny's not doing so well today, I think he caught the epizootic.From the entry epizootic
  • It was very singular; I don't know why he did it.From the entry singular
  • He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of The New York Times.From the entry open
  • As he grew older, he opened to new ways of doing things.From the entry open
  • The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.From the entry religion
  • Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.From the entry send

Meaning of he

  1. pronoun A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
  2. pronoun They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
  3. pronoun It; an animal whose gender is unknown.

Full definition of he

Questions about he in a sentence

How do you use he in a sentence?
He is used as a pronoun, determiner and noun. For example: “That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.”
What is a short sentence with he?
“Is your cat a he or a she?”
What does he mean?
He means a person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: he (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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