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How to use hers in a sentence

40 example sentences · pronoun

Hers means that or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. Example: “That handbag is hers. These gloves are also hers.”

Examples of hers by meaning

pronounThat or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.

  • That handbag is hers. These gloves are also hers.
  • Mine is the blue one, and hers is the red one.
  • This is a favourite song of hers.

pronounHer house or home.

  • Let's go over to hers.

More sentences with hers

  • This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.From the entry rate
  • She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.From the entry adultery
  • She's a welch. That watering-can isn't hers: I lent it to her three years ago.From the entry welch
  • They even have matching his and hers slippers and dressing gowns.From the entry his and hers
  • I think there's a screw loose in that brain of hers!From the entry screw loose
  • Everyone had eggs for breakfast, but Alice also had toast. Also, she finished hers in under half an hour.From the entry also
  • My heart is hers, and hers only.From the entry only
  • My paycheck is small potatoes compared to hers.From the entry small potatoes
  • My house is upcanyon from hers.From the entry upcanyon
  • Big fart bubbles are popping and wobbling and bouncing from that brappy butt of hers!2026 May 5, @flyfoenix1, X (post). From the entry brappy
  • Then her tongue was in your mouth and yours was in hers.2023, Colin Walsh, Kala. From the entry shift
  • It has been a baptism of fire by many accounts, including hers.2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry baptism of fire
  • Hers is a single memorial stone in front of a large building.2023 October 23, Lana Bastašić, “I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza”, in The…. From the entry stolperstein
  • If Dot were to pick an ideology, hers would be wabi-sabi.2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 265. From the entry wabi-sabi
  • And letting ice-cold "bought" air drift outside was a pet peeve of hers.2020, Sasha Summers, Jace. From the entry bought air
  • And he'd noped out of hers as soon as she'd told him she was pregnant.2018, Zoe York, Love on the Outskirts of Town. From the entry nope out
  • Unfortunately from their PoV, the bottom line was Mags’s and hers alone.2016, Ian Wood, Seasoning. From the entry pov
  • We met online, exchanged pics, exchanged fantasies (mostly mine), exchanged racy pics (mostly hers), chatted, vidchatted.2013 April 9, Ska Hammer, “How I Came to Have My Own Panties”, in Crasstalk, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018. From the entry vidchat
  • She was not going to allow Gregory Winston Fallows to throw his life—and hers—away.2012, Rushton Beech, Only the Moon Rages, page 56. From the entry lash oneself to the mast
  • Meg is going to put hers under her pillow tonight and dream of her future husband.2012 August 30, Pamela Hartshorne, Time's Echo, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry bride's maid
  • She pours us each a glass of water, but the Beroccas both go in hers.2012, Nick Earls, After January, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN. From the entry Berocca
  • Maxine tried hers. ‘Oh bum,’ she said crossly. ‘The sugar isn’t sugar.2010, Jill Mansell, Sheer Mischief. From the entry bum
  • She had just minded her own business and less Miss Black mind hers with Chris and Lou.2010, E. C. Spykman, Terrible, Horrible Edie, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry superenormous
  • With his head behind hers they looked like a twoheaded baby.2009, John Wray, Lowboy, page 130. From the entry twoheaded
  • Doin' that, she smiled that crooked smile of hers that had got me in trouble.2005, Hughlett Morris, Luther's Women: A Differnt Civil War Story, →ISBN, page 199. From the entry twicet
  • I guess he wanted a “real” bath where mommy takes hers.2004, Dana Kramer-Rolls, The Way of the Cat, →ISBN. From the entry catbath
  • I was low-hearted in my ways, and she was hoping in hers, like her father was.2004, Kathleen Elizabeth Diffley, To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861–1876, →ISBN. From the entry low-hearted
  • McKenzie helps me with my boy problems; I help her with hers.2004 January, Katy Vine, quoting Elizabeth, “McKenzie Mullins Has Cow”, in Texas Monthly, volume 32, number 1, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page…. From the entry boy problems
  • And you,” she said in that dryly prosaic deep voice of hers, “look healed.”1997, Colleen McCullough, Caesar’s Women, page 17. From the entry mater
  • Down in Atlanta, where she was from, people used to line up to kiss hers.1992, Olivia Goldsmith, The First Wives Club, page 200. From the entry heinie
  • "Is your computer schizing out on you?" Anika asked, apparently having the same problem with hers.1989, Michael A[ustin] Stackpole, Lethal Heritage, Chicago, I.L.: FASA Corporation, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry schiz
  • Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers.1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda. From the entry home
  • He almost fell on top of her, his mouth dabblingly seeking hers.1974, H. R. F. Keating, The Underside. From the entry dabblingly
  • She had turned herself back into a virgin again, with that flair for backwardness of hers.1966, David R. Slavitt, Rochelle: or, Virtue Rewarded, Chapman and Hall, published 1966, page 118. From the entry unicorn bait
  • Ida was looking for that coward's castle of hers on the far horizon.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 276. From the entry coward's castle
  • "Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 72. From the entry moll

Meaning of hers

  1. pronoun That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.
  2. pronoun Her house or home.

Full definition of hers

Questions about hers in a sentence

How do you use hers in a sentence?
Hers is used as a pronoun. For example: “That handbag is hers. These gloves are also hers.”
What is a short sentence with hers?
“Let's go over to hers.”
What does hers mean?
Hers means that or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hers (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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