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How to use yonder in a sentence

20 example sentences · adverb, adjective, determiner

Yonder means at or in a distant but indicated place. Example: “Whose doublewide is that over yonder?”

Examples of yonder by meaning

adverbAt or in a distant but indicated place.

  • Whose doublewide is that over yonder?
  • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

adverbSynonym of thither: to a distant but indicated place.

  • They headed on over yonder.

determinerWho or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.

  • Yonder lass, who be she?

determinerOne who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.

  • The yonder is Queen Niobe.

nounThe vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest.

  • She set off into the blue yonder.

More sentences with yonder

  • "Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’."From the entry posish
  • We use watter as goes daan t'goit yonder for t'grinnelstuns.From the entry goit
  • I see a horse on yonders plain Whose body's been but lately slain.1940, The University of Missouri Studies - Volume 15, Issue 1, page 120. From the entry yonders
  • “That big splosion in the road back yonder wa’n’t nothin’ on’y a back fire.1924, Octavus Roy Cohen, Sunclouds, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 128. From the entry splosion
  • I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper. From the entry prise
  • Do you observe that stout fellow yonder, with a stick in his hand?1911, Real Life in London, page 162. From the entry daisy-kicker
  • Absence makes the heart go yonder, sweetheart.2019, A'zayler, In Love with My Enemy. From the entry absence makes the heart go yonder
  • "From yonder hair-brained hag, The world, good faith and honour "Seek not, for lo! the bride Of thousand bridegooms she is."2011, The Collected Poems of Hafiz - Page 46. From the entry bridegoom
  • And sometimes absence makes the heart go yonder.1989, William J. Petersen, Husbands and Wives, page 199. From the entry absence makes the heart go yonder
  • “Down yonder, they teach their womenfolks to serve.”1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 25. From the entry womenfolk
  • Had me a cat, the cat pleased me, I fed my cat in yonders tree, cat went fiddle-i-fee.1954, Ralph Steele Boggs, El folklore en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, page 91. From the entry yonders
  • What light through yonder eyethurl breaks.1978, Stuart Diamond, Paul S. Lorris, It’s in Your Power: The Concerned Energy Consumer’s Survival Kit, New York, N.Y.: Rawson Associates…. From the entry eyethurl
  • The sky was cloudless; the foliage of the wood scarce tinged with purple and gold; the buckwheat in yonder fields frostened into snowy ripeness.1922, Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations. From the entry frosten
  • We're just following a couple of crooks who've got slick away in that two-funnelled boat yonder, and we mean to keep in touch with them till they land.1915, William Le Queux, The Place of Dragons. From the entry slick

Meaning of yonder

  1. adverb At or in a distant but indicated place.
  2. adverb Synonym of thither: to a distant but indicated place.
  3. adjective The farther, the more distant of two choices.

Full definition of yonder

Questions about yonder in a sentence

How do you use yonder in a sentence?
Yonder is used as an adverb, adjective and determiner. For example: “Whose doublewide is that over yonder?”
What is a short sentence with yonder?
“The yonder is Queen Niobe.”
What does yonder mean?
Yonder means at or in a distant but indicated place.

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