How to use ours in a sentence

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More sentences with ours

• We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.From the entry hire
• Other vendors' products may be cheaper, but ours are standards compliant.From the entry standards compliant
• When the neighbours' dog barked, ours instantly replied with a howl.From the entry instantly
• The previous presentation ran over and ours had to start late.From the entry run over
• When you withdraw yor forces, we shall also withdraw ours.From the entry also
• Theirs cost a lot more than ours.From the entry theirs
• You argued well in court but your firm doesn't pay its lawyers well, so why don't you come across to ours?From the entry come across
• You will see that ours is plainly the better method.From the entry plainly
• The people on the beach blanket near ours were fine until they started changing into their swimsuits right in our faces.From the entry in someone's face
• How many frowardnesses of ours does he smother?From the entry frowardnesses
• That nutter Teo keeps sending me messages on Snap asking if you’re at ours??2023, Jyoti Patel, The Things That We Lost, #Merky Books, →ISBN. From the entry snap
• 'Cheers, my dears,' chuckles Dottie, raising a glass and chinking it against ours.2021, Erin Green, From Shetland, With Love. From the entry cheers my dears
• For ours is the kingdom of Covid-19 and its aftermath in an increasingly totalitarian world, amen.2021 January 1, “What a spectacular year 2020 has been; we have Covid to thank for it”, in The East African, Nation Media Group. From the entry Generation Zedder
• A customer of ours actually pushed his once, out of curiosity.2019 June 13, Steve Rentz, “What Is an MRI Quench?”, in Block Imaging, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2022. From the entry quench
• Your fault for bein' so lackwit, ours for givin' you leave.2018, Chris Claremont, George Lucas, Shadow Dawn. From the entry lackwit
• Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft to pull itself into a sphere.2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal…. From the entry heft
• If there were items, which our ship required, left abandoned anywhere, those items were ours.2013, James Carl Duncan, Adventures of a Tennessean, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry comshaw
• I thought it resembled me more than Hartwick but mox nix—it was ours.2011, Ritch Gaiti, Tweet: One Guy Can't Change the World—Good Thing that Glebe Didn't Know That, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry mox nix
• Ours was a nursing program based on a paradigm of holistic patient care.2010, CeCelia R. Zorn, Becoming a Nurse Educator: Dialogue for an Engaging Career, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page ix. From the entry wifty-wafty
• This is a nutso project they've taken on, but it's their nutso project, not ours.2009, Sally John, Gary Smalley, A Time to Surrender, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry nutso
• It's odd, this life of ours, and I'm terribly aware of my culpability in said oddness.2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married. From the entry Jeebus
• Um, I can't think of a hobby with more diverse interests than ours.2004 March 6, Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@henning.com>, “Re: Was Tolkien a good conlanger? (was: Re: Good Books”, in Conlang mailing list…. From the entry neography
• “Ours is such a transigent culture, we are known for ‘transformismo,’ going along to get along.”2000 February 18, Alessandra Stanley, “Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican ‘Regrets’ Burning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry transigent
• The parallels between the “Bibliolatry” of Milton’s day and the “Constitutionolatry” of ours are striking.1996, Daniel Lazare, The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy, Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 305. From the entry constitutionolatry
• "If a fellow of ours isn't uncovered we may be limboed here till—" Till when?1988 October, Jack Womack, chapter 5, in Terraplane […], New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry limbo
• The slave was not so much a slave as ours are.1984, Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1st American edition, volumes V (1936–1941), New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich…. From the entry pessimize
• Their weapons are poor and their boats smaller and slower than ours.1974 May, John Robert Russell, chapter 3, in Sar, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 63–64. From the entry lust after
• Ours was therefore the first city in the U.S. to make a plan official.1972, Bleecker Marquette, “The Cincinnati Story - Housing and Other Things”, in Health, Housing and Other Things, Cincinnati, Ohio, →OCLC…. From the entry extraordinate
• Ours has been called the jet age, the atomic age, the space age.1961 May 9, Newton Minow, Television and the Public Interest. From the entry age

Meaning of ours

1. pronoun Excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours).
2. pronoun Including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive ours).
3. pronoun That or those belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.

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Questions about ours in a sentence

How do you use ours in a sentence?

Ours is used as a pronoun. For example: “You can't take that! It's ours!”

What is a short sentence with ours?

“French food is better than ours.”

What does ours mean?

Ours means excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours).