How do you use Ours in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Ours meaning
- That or those belonging to us.
- Excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours)
Ours vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Ours
- The main meaning on this page is: That or those belonging to us. | Excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours) | That or those belonging to us.
- Possible Dutch translations are: het onze, de onze, die van ons.
- In the example corpus, ours often appears in combinations such as: like ours, of ours, ours is.
Context around Ours
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ours
- In this selection, "ours" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, turned, saving, two, alone and says stand out and add context to how "ours" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acquaintance of ours bo katan and and turned ours into ever. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ours" sits close to words such as ballistic, desirable and grabs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ours
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That decision is ours and ours alone. (7 words)
Bring your own nonpartisan sign or use one of ours. (10 words)
But guess what, grace is abundant, the race is ours. (10 words)
His parents worked far away, so the kids would get dropped off at ours, two hours before school and be picked up from ours two hours after school, and even occasionally staying over with us one-week-at-a-time if the parents went away on holiday. (47 words)
And they have quite a bit higher turnover in that business stand-alone, and we're glad to see that we remedied that, made that turnover level look like ours -- more like ours, which is really the important part of that. (41 words)
As your Assembly representative, I do all I can to make sure our local fire fighters have everything they need to do their jobs safely and effectively as they risk their lives saving ours and keeping our region more fire resilient. (41 words)
How can he say that ours is a static culture in the age of connectivity, which has accelerated change and turned ours into ever more “liquid societies”? (27 words)
We’ve been on their turf and now they’re coming on ours and ours is becoming theirs and what does that mean? (23 words)
Anyway, that’s the sad side of a society that is as complex as ours! (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
And they have quite a bit higher turnover in that business stand-alone, and we're glad to see that we remedied that, made that turnover level look like ours -- more like ours, which is really the important part of that.
His parents worked far away, so the kids would get dropped off at ours, two hours before school and be picked up from ours two hours after school, and even occasionally staying over with us one-week-at-a-time if the parents went away on holiday.
How can he say that ours is a static culture in the age of connectivity, which has accelerated change and turned ours into ever more “liquid societies”?
That decision is ours and ours alone.
We’ve been on their turf and now they’re coming on ours and ours is becoming theirs and what does that mean?
After the arrival of this new app, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey shared a screenshot of the information related to ‘Threads’ on the ‘App Store’ and wrote that all your threads are ours.
And finally, our union is realizing that crucial fact, and we’re fighting for what’s ours.
And for union health, they actually have a similar profit with us, but their market value was 30 times higher than ours.
And then travel essentials such as a water bottle, microfiber towels, an underwater camera, tripod, collapsible tupperware and a spare phone (which we were grateful for when one of ours was stolen in Brazil).
And we love partnering with style influencers of all shapes and sizes who want to align their brand with ours.
Another member of the Death Watch was an old acquaintance of ours, Bo-Katan Kryze) herself.
Anyway, that’s the sad side of a society that is as complex as ours!
Asked about this, board chair Tom Cavanagh said, “Ours says period, you need” a state inspection.
As your Assembly representative, I do all I can to make sure our local fire fighters have everything they need to do their jobs safely and effectively as they risk their lives saving ours and keeping our region more fire resilient.
Bring your own nonpartisan sign or use one of ours.
But a school like ours can take you from beginner to skilled.
But guess what, grace is abundant, the race is ours.
But it was the last time it was just ours, cast, crew, everyone who’s worked on it, writers.
But Lidia, the other events and communications coordinator, and I will run all the arts events, so kind of having a great process for them to run theirs as well as ours and make our events as great as possible.
But the decision is ours to take, not for the Government to enforce.
Common combinations with ours
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- like ours 29×
- of ours 27×
- ours is 19×
- is ours 19×
- ours and 12×
- as ours 11×
- and ours 8×
- ours to 8×
- not ours 6×
- ours which 5×