How to use theirs in a sentence

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• The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.From the entry sore
• Theirs was a loveless marriage: they stayed together even though they didn't care for each other.From the entry loveless
• That lottery money is both of theirs. They ought to share it.From the entry both of theirs
• Don't you think that ours looks much nicer than theirs?From the entry ours
• Theirs was a chaste marriage, loving and content.From the entry chaste
• The Commonwealth of Kentucky abolished its felony murder rule decades ago, but many other states still have theirs on the books.From the entry felony murder rule
• I've coupled our system to theirs.From the entry couple
• Rather than banging on about my barnet, I’d ask friends about theirs.2021 March 14, Michael Segalov, “It can leave your self-image fractured”, in The Guardian. From the entry barnet
• Sub4sub people will probably not watch your channel, just like you probably won't watch theirs.2017 February 5, u/Asuko_XIII, “Can someone help me understand how sub4sub is bad?”, in r/letsplay, Reddit. From the entry sub4sub
• Nelson identifies as a cisqueer female and uses the Preferred Gender Pronouns (PGP) they, them and theirs.2015, Rebecca Huff, "Gender identity at Miami", The Miami Student (Miami University, Oxford, OH), page 3. From the entry cisqueer
• Theirs was a four-day courtship that was not a foundation for anything, including heartbreak.2015 November 14, Ben Bolch, “Mavericks not the same team they would have been with DeAndre Jordan”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles…. From the entry pinkie-swear
• Carmine streaks stained their limbs, their tunics and cataphracts; but little of the blood was theirs.2013, Stephen R[eeder] Donaldson, “Shamed Choices”, in The Last Dark (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant; book 4), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry cataphract
• Even boys wore undershifts, though theirs were shorter than the knee-length ones girls wore.2011, Sheri S. Tepper, The Waters Rising, →ISBN. From the entry undershift
• The Béarnais prepare theirs with the boiled cheeks, tripe and spleen of calf.2011 August 12, Anissa Helou, “An A to Z of offal”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sanguette
• His disdain for Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder, and theirs for him, was bristlingly clear.2008 June 15, Maureen Dowd, “W. Regrets Almost Nothing”, in New York Times. From the entry bristlingly
• Unfat people tend to blame us for our burden—even though it's our burden, not theirs.2006, Michael S. Berman, Laurence Shames, Living Large: A Big Man's Ideas on Weight, Success, and Acceptance. From the entry unfat
• How far would you want to permit others to go with theirs?2005 October 4, John Tierney, “What To Do When Junior Wants To Be Technologically Enhanced”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry junior
• In order to distinguish his cows from theirs for the drive back to Arizona, Mr.2002, American Cowboy, volume 9, number 3, page 60. From the entry lazy
• The world is filled with doodleheads who think that any program which isn’t theirs is expendable.1990, Peter Utz, “Editing a Videotape”, in Create Excellent Video, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, section “When You’re…. From the entry doodlehead
• Now what a-devil has set this hornet's nest of theirs abuzz so suddenly?1902, Francis Lynde, “How a King’s Trooper Became a Wastrel”, in The Master of Appleby: […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers…. From the entry abuzz
• It’s going to feel like it’s theirs, too."2021 July 4, Justin Phillips, “Why I'm sitting out the Fourth of July”, in San Francisco Chronicle. From the entry kujichagulia
• These two stars turned theirs back to April.'2017, John Virgo, Say Goodnight, JV - My Autobiography, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry break off
• Of course, the other side also sees the conflict through a mythos—and in theirs they are the victim.2016, Daniel Shapiro, “Uncovering Your Mythos of Identity”, in Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged…. From the entry mythos
• The fans at the ACC emptied theirs, too.2016 May 2, Blake Murphy, “They did it”, in Raptors Republic, retrieved 20 Apr 2021. From the entry empty the clip
• It’s not easy to get curves like theirs.2014 February 27, Dr. Anthony Youn, “2013: The Year of the butt?”, in CNN. From the entry liposuction
• Behe’s name, and not theirs, crackled triumphantly around the memosphere.2007 July 1, Richard Dawkins, “Inferior Design”, in New York Times. From the entry memosphere
• They believe that when a partnership works as well as theirs has, you shouldn't analyze it too much.2003, Sam Staggs, Close-up on Sunset Boulevard, →ISBN. From the entry odd job
• No act of theirs disjointed, no subservient bud doth flower For equal in the Godhead reigns the indivisive power.2003, Cyril Hart, Learning and Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England and the Influence of Ramsey Abbey on the Major English Monastic Schools. From the entry indivisive
• We usually conduct these ceremonies on the White House South Lawn, and the Chinese usually conduct theirs in Tiananmen Square.2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Imagine the Future”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 457. From the entry pro-democracy
• They worry that if they celebrate their Arabian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian and Georgian pasts, Turkey will seem less theirs.2001, Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry Turkocentric
• You wonder at this darker world of theirs.1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle. From the entry nightish
• Although my second case is more susceptible to the interpretation suggested by Raymond and Janet, it is not identical to theirs.1995, Lad Haskovec, “New observations on akathisia”, in History of Psychiatry. From the entry kathisophobia
• Or are our aerodromes far more weatherbound than theirs?1995, Geoffrey Williams, Flying through Fire: FIDO – the Fogbuster of World War Two, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publishing…. From the entry weatherbound
• Like it was theirs instead of yours?”1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 19. From the entry hincty
• Now he says all the rice is theirs.1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (motion picture), spoken by Private Gator Lerner (Johnny Depp). From the entry honcho
• Theirs is an everlasting terrestrial inheritance because they rejected the truth when it was offered to them in mortality.1977 August, Bruce R. McConkie, “A New Commandment: Save Thyself and Thy Kindred!”, in Tambuli, page 5. From the entry terrestrial

Meaning of theirs

1. pronoun That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
2. pronoun Their house or home.

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Questions about theirs in a sentence

How do you use theirs in a sentence?

Theirs is used as a pronoun. For example: “This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs.”

What is a short sentence with theirs?

“Let's go over to theirs.”

What does theirs mean?

Theirs means that or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.