Example sentences for: theirs

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

  • While classical performers tended to interpret their eighth notes strictly and evenly, jazz musicians provided a little bounce in theirs, a slightly uneven distribution of rhythm achieved by placing them slightly behind the beat, and/or by making the first eighth note slightly longer than the second.

  • Theirs is now the dominant right-wing critique of integrationist programs.

  • Theirs was a revolution of the imagination, and many of their works continue to present the vigor of that spirit even after three-quarters of a century of pastiches and secondhand derivations, but at the same time they present an unhappy example of wishful thinking.

  • Pundits vouched that Barbour was a swell buddy of theirs and that he had acquitted himself brilliantly.

  • There's his wife, Claire, wealthy and generous; his daughter by Claire, self-righteous Marigold, whom he calls "an unfrocked priest of a woman"; his beautiful daughter by his first marriage, Cora; and various spouses and lovers, past, present, and future, his and theirs.


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