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Example sentences for "each other"

  • Well, they--" But during this argumentative time the desire to deal blows seemed to pass, although they said much to each other.

  • They struck savagely and powerfully at each other for a period of minutes, and then the lighter-hued regiments faltered and drew back, leaving the dark-blue lines shouting.

  • They clamored at each other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention.

  • And here the two brothers gave each other a hug, and then they held out the two hands that were free, to shake hands with her.

  • So Alice hunted among the chessmen on the table till she had found the Red Queen: then she went down on her knees on the hearth-rug, and put the kitten and the Queen to look at each other.

  • Then the thing happened which has happened to more persons than to me when principle and personal interest found themselves in opposition to each other and a choice had to be made: I let principle go, and went over to the other side.

  • The spheres are to each other as the squares of their homologous sides.

  • Tell me--what do men admire most in each other?

  • He is the best and dearest of men," I answered.

  • Why had she left us, as if the bare idea of remaining in our company was abhorrent to her?

  • Apart from this, the rest was lying, clumsy lying, which said one thing at least for him, that he was not accustomed to falsehood and deceit.

  • And why had Major Fitz-David's face changed when he found that I had discovered the remains of his shattered work of art in the cabinet drawer?

  • I awoke, suddenly and unaccountably, from a deep and dreamless sleep with an all-pervading sensation of nervous uneasiness which I had never felt before.

  • Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

  • A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp.

  • A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver.

  • Men may be adversaries, antagonists, or opponents to each other in certain respects, and yet have no feelings of general animosity.

  • They looked at each other for a little while.

  • They sat in silence, musing over ancient happenings, and not looking at each other, until the Prince came with his guests, who seemed to laugh too heartily.

  • He naturally falls in love with her, and they say all manner of fine things to each other.

  • I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out.

  • Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.

  • The two sisters did not talk much to each other.

  • After all, they were bound to each other.

  • Mrs. Dawes and he had many periods of coolness, when they saw little of each other; but they always came together again.

  • When she bent and breathed a flower, it was as if she and the flower were loving each other.

  • Then why shouldn't we belong to each other altogether?

  • Hattie was a sweet, obedient, housewifely little body, and it looked as though we had exactly fitted them to each other.

  • I keep saying to myself, what if Gordon and I, when we really get acquainted, should change our minds about liking each other?

  • First they bored, and then they irritated, each other.

  • In another moment we were in each other's arms.

  • The toiling Tyrians on each other call To ply their labor: some extend the wall; Some build the citadel; the brawny throng Or dig, or push unwieldly stones along.

  • They looked at each other, and Missael saw he had nothing to be afraid of in remaining alone with Isidor.

  • As soon as lessons are over you must make each other's acquaintance.

  • The pupils bowed ceremoniously, and Sara made a little curtsy, and then they sat down and looked at each other again.

  • They ses to each other, 'That's the princess.

  • They had always played together and been fond of each other.

  • She only said the kind of thing little girls always say to each other by way of beginning an acquaintance, but there was something friendly about Sara, and people always felt it.

  • After that they were much apart, heard nothing of each other for a long time, and she felt her life quite closed up for her.

  • Henchard's chiding, by begetting in her a nervous fear of doing anything definable as unladylike, had operated thus curiously in keeping them unknown to each other at a critical moment.

  • Henchard had come up, accidentally encountering the young man, whose face seemed to inquire, "Do we speak to each other?

  • When she ended he stood up ponderously, leaning against the desk; and for a second or two they looked at each other.

  • They stood and looked at each other for a long moment, eye to eye, with the terrible equality of courage that sometimes made her feel as if she had his blood in her veins.

  • For a moment they looked at each other in silence; then, as he put his foot across the threshold, she stretched out her arm and stopped him.

  • Yet its consequences were latent in every word that he and she exchanged, in every glance they instinctively turned from each other.

  • They had met at meals during the five days that had elapsed since he had come to her door, and she had walked at his side at Eudora's funeral; but they had not spoken a word to each other.

  • And when farther pressed, had added, that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally dissimilar as to make mutual affection incompatible; and that they were unfitted for each other by nature, education, and habit.

  • In some points of interest they were exactly opposed to each other.

  • But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees This jarring discord of nobility, This shouldering of each other in the court, This factious bandying of their favourites, But that it doth presage some ill event.

  • From north to south, Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth.

  • The thieves are scattered, and possess'd with fear So strongly that they dare not meet each other.

  • From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each other" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each arrondissement; each bird; each brigade; each circuit; each corner; each direction; each face; each finger; each hand; each head; each hour; each house; each instrument; each kind; each month; each number; each organ; each particular; each petal; each piece; each point; each second; each section; each sign; each tooth; each wagon