Example sentences for: ours

How can you use “ours” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Don't count your chickens before they are hatched (F) Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué You should not sell the skin of the bear before you have killed him; (G) Man soll die Haut nicht verkaufen, ehe man den Bären gefangen hat You should not sell the skin before you have caught the bear; (R) He \?\ Not having killed the bear, do not sell the skin; (S) No vendas la piel del oso antes de matarlo Don't sell the skin of the bear before you have killed him.

  • However, the brains of our nearest relatives, the great apes, weigh only 300–500 grams, even though their body size is similar to ours (Figure 1).

  • Being very new to this country and having, so far, only encountered school English, she found it difficult to believe that dialectal variation could be so great in such a tight little island as ours, and that so much of it could be unintelligible to the uninitiated.

  • But this, of course, is not Southwest's fault, except insofar as Southwest makes its seats so cheap that even drunken assholes can fly across this great country of ours.

  • In portraying Washington this way, those in the movie business are depicting their political culture, not ours.


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