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How to use other in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, determiner

Other means see other (determiner) below. Example: “Pick up the phone and find out who's on the other end.”

Examples of other by meaning

adjectiveSee other (determiner) below.

  • Pick up the phone and find out who's on the other end.

adjectiveSecond.

  • I get paid every other week.

adjectiveAlien.

  • In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.2010 April 20, anonymous author, “Letters”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 8, page 6

adjectiveDifferent.

  • it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.2001 Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, “The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot.”, in Perspectives on...

nounAn other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.

  • I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
  • Show me one other.

nounThe other one; the second of two.

  • One boat is not better than the other.
  • Why not tell one or other of your parents?
  • He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

determinerNot the one or ones previously referred to.

  • Earning less than $2,000 a month, I have no other source of income except for gifts from relatives.
  • “By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name?1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98

verbTo regard, label, or treat as an “other”, as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.

  • "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.2005, Kristen A. Myers, Racetalk: racism hiding in plain sight
  • Others with admitted addictions are Othered and sadly, forever stigmatized.2010, Ronald L. Jackson, I, Encyclopedia of Identity
  • “But then you get here and then you’re being ‘othered’” — viewed as different and separate.2024 February 16, Colette Coleman, “Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y....

More sentences with other

  • I only use the library for the encyclopedia, as we’ve got most other books here.From the entry encyclopedia
  • I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.From the entry pond
  • The policy covers all belongings and other personal things that somebody can carry about them.From the entry about
  • She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.From the entry one
  • My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."From the entry one
  • This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.From the entry medicine
  • His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.From the entry bit
  • The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.From the entry language
  • I got to know her during the pandemic, so we've known each other for years now.From the entry know
  • "$" is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.From the entry symbol
  • Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.From the entry animal
  • Daniel is amazing, wonderful, fantastic, and many other superlatives I can’t think of right now!From the entry superlative
  • This stick is quite long, but that other one is half as long again.From the entry again
  • New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.From the entry earth
  • In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.From the entry laundry
  • Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.From the entry habitable
  • Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars.From the entry stock car
  • They gave each other a quick hello when they met, and went back on their merry ways.From the entry hello
  • Talking of Mr Smith, funnily enough, I saw him just the other day.From the entry enough
  • They despise each other, but they are always civil in public.From the entry civil
  • I've never had Jehovahs at my door, but the other day two Mormons came to my door.From the entry Jehovah
  • The tree will eventually tower taller than any of the others.From the entry tower
  • I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!From the entry buff
  • We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.From the entry friend
  • The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.From the entry draw
  • It could be one or the other, or both. Who knows?From the entry who knows

Meaning of other

  1. adjective See other (determiner) below.
  2. adjective Second.
  3. adjective Alien.

Full definition of other

Questions about other in a sentence

How do you use other in a sentence?
Other is used as an adjective, noun and determiner. For example: “Pick up the phone and find out who's on the other end.”
What is a short sentence with other?
“Show me one other.”
What does other mean?
Other means see other (determiner) below.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: other (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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