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How to use them in a sentence

40 example sentences · pronoun, noun, determiner

Them means used as the direct object of a verb. Example: “She treated them for a cold.”

Examples of them by meaning

pronounUsed as the direct object of a verb.

  • She treated them for a cold.
  • Proponents of adding a gender-neutral option to state identification documents say it would remove a form of discrimination against nonbinary people by providing them with the means to carry identification that matches their identity.2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the...

pronounUsed as the indirect object of a verb.

  • She wrote them a letter.

pronounUsed as the object of a preposition.

  • Give it to them.

pronounAs a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.

  • Them and the boys went to live with Auntie Madge and Uncle Herbie when Miss Violet died.2021 June 10, Yvonne Bailey-Smith, The Day I Fell Off My Island, Myriad Editions, →ISBN

pronounUsed in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).

  • Who was there? —Them.
  • Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.)
  • Who did that? —(It was) not them: I was watching them the whole time.

pronounUsed as the direct object of a verb.

  • If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.
  • Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, ‘Morning, Yaxley!’ Yaxley ignored them.2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, London: Bloomsbury, 2008, →ISBN, page 270

pronounUsed as the indirect object of a verb.

  • If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.

pronounUsed as the object of a preposition.

  • If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them.
  • Each adolescent girl with ASD has needs specific to her because each of them has variable characteristics and different degrees of sensory and perceptual difficulties.2024 July 2, Rukiye Arslan, Derya Yanık, Raziye Pekşen Akça, “Investigation of Menstrual Hygiene and Self-Care Skills of Adolescent Girls...

More sentences with them

  • The policy covers all belongings and other personal things that somebody can carry about them.From the entry about
  • Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.From the entry english
  • I need to keep in with the neighbours in case I ever need a favour from them.From the entry in
  • We owe them a debt of gratitude for taking care of our pets.From the entry debt
  • Each batch is an FTP. The log tracking them is on the dashboard.From the entry FTP
  • If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.From the entry absorb
  • Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.From the entry ground
  • We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.From the entry close
  • They daredn't tell me the truth, even though I dared (to) acknowledge my mistake to them.From the entry dare
  • I wrung out my wet jeans and hung them out to dry.From the entry wrung
  • My great-grandfather worked in a mill. He filled the flour sacks and then carried and loaded them.From the entry mill
  • All contestants must register for the footrace: we've arranged numbers for them all.From the entry all
  • Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement.From the entry bombard
  • Those pears aren't ripe enough for the children to eat (them).From the entry enough
  • We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.From the entry friend
  • I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument.From the entry hear
  • He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.From the entry breathe
  • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.From the entry mouth
  • Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.From the entry neck
  • The world is full of opportunities and it's up to me to see them and pursue them.From the entry opportunity
  • "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.From the entry law
  • Problems can arise unexpectedly, but we need to be prepared for them.From the entry arise
  • I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them.From the entry advocate
  • My eyes hurt, the cold and dry air makes them burn.From the entry burn
  • Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.From the entry cost
  • One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.From the entry fight
  • We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.From the entry graduate

Meaning of them

  1. pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb.
  2. pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb.
  3. pronoun Used as the object of a preposition.

Full definition of them

Questions about them in a sentence

How do you use them in a sentence?
Them is used as a pronoun, noun and determiner. For example: “She treated them for a cold.”
What is a short sentence with them?
“Give it to them.”
What does them mean?
Them means used as the direct object of a verb.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: them (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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