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How to use of in a sentence

40 example sentences · preposition

Of means from (a place); off. Example: “Take the chicken out of the freezer.”

Examples of of by meaning

prepositionFrom (a place); off.

  • Take the chicken out of the freezer.

prepositionSince, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).

  • He hasn't been well of late.
  • Obama has been obliged to make nice of late in hope of rescuing the moribund two-state process and preventing resumed West Bank settlement building.2010 July 29, Simon Tisdall, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media...

prepositionFrom, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).

  • There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
  • Though Washington does not officially recognize Moscow, the Hoover Administration permits a Soviet Russian Information Bureau to flourish in a modest red brick house on Massachusetts Avenue, within a mile of the White House.1932 September 30, Time
  • There are now upwards of 1.4 million 99ers in America facing a life with no benefits and few prospects for finding a job in a market in which companies are still not hiring.2010 November 7, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC

prepositionIndicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance...

  • Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
  • In Houston, ten minutes after the Lindquist Finance Corp. was robbed of $447, Office Manager Howard Willson got a phone call from the thief who complained: "You didn't have enough money over there."1951 September 3, Time

prepositionIndicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.

  • He seemed devoid of human feelings.
  • Yet for long spells Villa looked laboured and devoid of ideas.2010 October 31, Stuart James, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &...

prepositionIndicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.

  • The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
  • My father was born of a family of weavers in Manchester, England.1954, The Rotarian, volume 85:6
  • Nothing may come of these ideas, yet their potential should not be dismissed.2010, “The Cost of Repair”, in The Economist

prepositionIntroducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.

  • Jesus of Nazareth (after hometown)
  • Anselm of Canterbury (after diocese)
  • Anselm of Aosta (after birthplace)

prepositionIndicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an...

  • The invention was born of necessity.
  • The woman who danced for me said she was there of her own free will, but when I pushed a bit further, I discovered that she "owed a man a lot of money", and had to pay it back quickly.2008 December 3, Rowenna Davis, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &...

More sentences with of

  • If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.From the entry dictionary
  • The fundamental group of the figure eight is free of rank 2.From the entry free
  • I managed to murmur some words of consolation as I left the funeral.From the entry word
  • There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting.From the entry word
  • Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.From the entry book
  • I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.From the entry pond
  • I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.From the entry pie
  • He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.From the entry crow
  • Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.From the entry day
  • “Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.From the entry antonym
  • The word "advisedly" has a connotation of "wisely", although it denotes merely "intentionally" and "deliberately."From the entry connotation
  • In very ancient or poorly documented languages, the precise semantics of words tend to be uncertain.From the entry semantics
  • We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.From the entry minute
  • They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.From the entry minute
  • She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.From the entry barter
  • You may be able to barter for some of the items you need at the local market.From the entry barter
  • He withdrew money to his bank account after several years of trading stocks on E-Trade.From the entry trade
  • Substantive editing is never trivial, whereas some aspects of copyediting are trivial.From the entry substantive
  • His vigorous patronage of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives.From the entry patronage
  • We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.From the entry deal
  • The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.From the entry deal
  • The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.From the entry product

Meaning of of

  1. preposition From (a place); off.
  2. preposition Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
  3. preposition From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).

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Questions about of in a sentence

How do you use of in a sentence?
Of is used as a preposition. For example: “Take the chicken out of the freezer.”
What is a short sentence with of?
“Anselm of Aosta (after birthplace)”
What does of mean?
Of means from (a place); off.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: of (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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