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How to use hither in a sentence

10 example sentences · adverb, adjective, verb

Hither means to this place, to here. Example: “He went hither and thither.”

Examples of hither by meaning

adverbTo this place, to here.

  • He went hither and thither.
  • "How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 44

adjectiveOn this side; the nearer.

  • The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 30

More sentences with hither

  • Part of the time he spent in the speedster dashing hither and yon.1937 December, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Galactic Patrol”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 20, number 4, page 73. From the entry deep space
  • And now she knows, just what those fluttering eyelashes can do, just what that come hither look means.2004, Arti N Sheth, Another Day in Bongoland. From the entry come hither
  • We’ve now spent eight years watching Republican congressmen scurrying hither and thither brandishing pitchforks, outraged at the latest whiff of terrorist fist-bumpery.2016 September 4, Hari Kunzru, “The [Barack] Obama years: novelists assess his legacy”, in The New Review (The Observer), London, →ISSN…. From the entry bumpery
  • “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on.”1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry hither and thither
  • The Stirling-Oban line has an even more sinuous course, as it winds hither and thither to obtain a passage through the depths of the mountains.1951 January, Robert M. Hogg, “Crossing Scotland's Mountain Barriers by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 17. From the entry hither and thither
  • I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21. From the entry windy
  • The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history. From the entry bedrift

Meaning of hither

  1. adverb To this place, to here.
  2. adverb Over here.
  3. adjective On this side; the nearer.

Full definition of hither

Questions about hither in a sentence

How do you use hither in a sentence?
Hither is used as an adverb, adjective and verb. For example: “He went hither and thither.”
What is a short sentence with hither?
“He went hither and thither.”
What does hither mean?
Hither means to this place, to here.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hither (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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