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Example sentences for "the other"

  • My ruse was successful, and the entire party of man-hunters raced headlong after me up one canyon while Ghak bore Perry to safety up the other.

  • She was going over to the other ocean, maybe, and did not know how far it was.

  • The air and the earth are curiously mated and intermingled, as if the one were the breath of the other.

  • Lou, on the other hand, was fussy and flighty; always planned to get through two days' work in one, and often got only the least important things done.

  • It has been so nice for me to feel that there was a friend at the other end of it again.

  • She led them to the northwest corner of the orchard, sheltered on one side by a thick mulberry hedge and bordered on the other by a wheatfield, just beginning to yellow.

  • But some philosophical people have been asking why three dimensions particularly--why not another direction at right angles to the other three?

  • I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.

  • One hand on the saddle, the other on the lever, I stood panting heavily in attitude to mount again.

  • And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?

  • The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other.

  • Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.

  • The lion then composed himself on his back on a sofa on one side of the drinking-table, while the jackal sat at his own paper-bestrewn table proper, on the other side of it, with the bottles and glasses ready to his hand.

  • One or the other of you is for ever in the way.

  • They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.

  • We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.

  • There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books, but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two.

  • In the camp of the strangers one was speaking rapidly to the other.

  • We could not smell it for its scent is being blown in the other direction, and so I bent my ears and eyes down wind where my nose cannot travel.

  • At his side, swinging gracefully along in marked contrast to the awkwardness of his companion, strode the boy, the dark, shaggy coat of the one brushing against the smooth, clear hide of the other.

  • But, on the other hand, could he take her into the jungle with him?

  • Is it possible that you do not realize that ether, if for a moment we adopt Challenger's preposterous supposition, is a universal substance which is the same here as at the other side of the world?

  • He pointed out to me that there were certain black lines which formed crossbars upon the series of brilliant colours extending from the red at one end through gradations of orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo to the violet at the other.

  • On the other hand, Laird Johnson, a very capable East Anglia observer, has recorded six-twenty as the hour.

  • Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

  • The next moment it seemed as if she were flying through the air; and then, before she had time to think about it, she was safe on the other side.

  • Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side.

  • The other birds, seeing he was not harmed by me, came to eat the corn too, so in a short time there was a great flock of them about me.

  • If the Tin Woodman can chop it down, so that it will fall to the other side, we can walk across it easily.

  • And when Tom held up the other di'mond he looked sorrier than ever.

  • Benny she set on one side of him and Aunt Sally on the other, and they had veils on, and was full of trouble.

  • The other evening--at coffee," he said, taking up the pace beside her.

  • The piano and clarinet stopped while they took the tune up on their own, turning it over, peeking into all the hidden motives, each musically entwined in the other.

  • The other evening, it did seem there was ever so much more to say.

  • If, on the other hand, it is systematic, I have no doubt that we shall get to the bottom of it.

  • He looked from one to the other of us, and under our gaze of inquiry he became conscious that some apology was needed for this unceremonious entry.

  • Her room was at the other end of the house, and she could hear nothing of what had passed.

  • On the other hand, if all the world was convinced that I was dead they would take liberties, these men, they would soon lay themselves open, and sooner or later I could destroy them.

  • And often they nearly stood upon their heads in their anxiety to observe the enemy on the other side of the tumbling smoke.

  • Perhaps there was to him a divinity expressed in the voice of the other--stern, hard, with no reflection of fear in it.

  • In the other end, cracker boxes were made to serve as furniture.

  • The composite monster which had caused the other troops to flee had not then appeared.

  • Or, on the other hand, he might be a man heretofore doomed to peace and obscurity, but, in reality, made to shine in war.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the 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:
    firm grip; the cattle; the days; the flesh; the heat; the heavens; the presence; the tent; the vale; the world; thee only; then applied; then boil; then both; then down; then enter; then left; then must; then remember; thence will; there wasn; there will; these last; these matters; these principles; these should