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Example sentences for "either the"

  • According to the belief of most people, he was a native of either the county of Dumfries or Galloway, and lineally descended from some of those champions of the Covenant, whose deeds and sufferings were his favourite theme.

  • I am like to be in no haste to do either the one or the other, Ailie, for I have some reasons for the present to conceal my being alive from every one but you; and as for the lairdship of Milnwood, it is in as good hands.

  • Edith, as if modesty had quelled the courage which despair had bestowed, stood about a yard from the door without having either the power to speak or to advance.

  • Either the merit of Avitus excited envy, or his moderation was desirous of repose, since he calmly retired to an estate, which he possessed in the neighborhood of Clermont.

  • An immediate and peremptory answer was required; but it was extremely difficult for Theodosius to satisfy, on this important occasion, either the feelings of his own mind, or the expectations of the public.

  • The spirit of his soldiers was revived by this seasonable reenforcement; and they again marched, with confidence, to surprise the camp of a tyrant, whose principal officers appeared to distrust, either the justice or the success of his arms.

  • Those persons born without limbs are either the subjects of intrauterine amputation or of embryonic malformation.

  • There was no pulse in the wrist in either the radial or ulnar arteries, but there was pulsation in the brachial as low as the ecchymosed swelling.

  • D'Aygaliers saw clearly that until he had obtained the approbation of either the general or the intendant, he would get nothing from the marechal.

  • This duty did not deprive him of either the esteem or even the friendship of his comrades, for they well knew that it was his arm alone that punished them and that his heart was not in his work.

  • But, except the pickets, not a single man of either the Stonewall or Lawton's division was permitted to expose himself.

  • As the historian of the Army of the Potomac puts it: "The movement to be executed by Sedgwick was precisely one of those movements which, according as they are wrought out, may be either the height of wisdom or the height of folly.

  • I do not think it as good as either the Pheasant or Grouse.

  • Or you may identify them; but then the name will be either the name of nothing or of itself, i.

  • To this question we must answer, No: if ever the term is applied to Socrates and Plato, either the application is made by an enemy out of mere spite, or the sense in which it is used is neutral.

  • The issue is distinctly made up; either the free-State or pro-slavery party is to have Kansas.

  • I do not regard it of serious importance to you to know the individual opinions of either the President or the Cabinet.

  • It is alleged on the one hand that complaints of the inefficiency of Colonel Gardner had reached Washington, and that, in consequence thereof, either the Secretary of War or the President sent for specific information in regard to it.

  • They centred marriage strictly in the vagina; they were not greatly concerned about either the presence or the absence of the child.

  • Either the man or the woman may take the active part in flirtage, but in a woman more refinement and skill is required to play the active part without repelling the man or injuring her reputation.

  • He has a great fund of knowledge, and an uncommonly good memory, although he does not make any parade of either the one or the other.

  • If you are not acquainted with her, either the Duchesse d'Aiguillon or Lady Hervey can, and I dare say will; introduce you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "either the" 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:
    called again; either alone; either before; either branch; either cheek; either direction; either directly; either flank; either foot strikes the; either fresh; either house; either part; either party; either player; either simple; either wholly; fourteen thousand; fully expected; hath gone; human need; living species; make another; our experience; porcelain crucible; save myself; would permit