Get to know Their better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Their meaning
- Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
- Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.
Using Their
- The main meaning on this page is: Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural). | Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.
- In the example corpus, their often appears in combinations such as: of their, and their, in their.
Context around Their
- Average sentence length in these examples: 33.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 15 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Their
- In this selection, "their" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 33.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, points, career, pay, own, lack and career stand out and add context to how "their" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a degree their lack of and and be their friend. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "their" sits close to words such as not, will and said, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with their
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He would slaughter their animals, kill their men, rape their women, enslave their children, and kill their God. (18 words)
I think about who else has just lost their sister, their brother, their dad, their mom and their love. (19 words)
These customers have not changed their long-term plans, their forecast for their revenue growth, their market share, their silicon carbide, their test times, those kinds of things. (28 words)
Their hind legs are slightly longer than their forelegs; they have three toes on their rear feet and four toes on their front feet. citation Their muzzles are blunt, with nostrils, and the eyes and ears are near the top of their heads. (43 words)
When reviewing a resume, I am looking for a career story showing how the candidate contributed to their employer’s business and how they manage their career – their commitment to their career, their desire to improve themselves, and their progress. (40 words)
Without organic certification, their milk couldn’t fetch the high prices needed to pay down their $800,000 farm debt and cover their business expenses, especially if they couldn’t grow their own feed anymore or let their cattle graze. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
When reviewing a resume, I am looking for a career story showing how the candidate contributed to their employer’s business and how they manage their career – their commitment to their career, their desire to improve themselves, and their progress.
These customers have not changed their long-term plans, their forecast for their revenue growth, their market share, their silicon carbide, their test times, those kinds of things.
Crowds followed Him wherever He went, wanting Him to answer their questions, cast out their demons, heal their infirmities, fix all their problems, pay their bills and be their friend.
Each panel member picks their top five nominees, with their first pick being awarded six points, their second pick receiving four points, their third three points, their fourth two points and their final pick one point.
Their hind legs are slightly longer than their forelegs; they have three toes on their rear feet and four toes on their front feet. citation Their muzzles are blunt, with nostrils, and the eyes and ears are near the top of their heads.
Without organic certification, their milk couldn’t fetch the high prices needed to pay down their $800,000 farm debt and cover their business expenses, especially if they couldn’t grow their own feed anymore or let their cattle graze.
If religious organizations can’t pay their expenses or carry out their mission without the help of government funds, then they should cut their expenses, change their mission, or close their doors.
Implied here is that people use their past, their lack of a degree, their lack of the right major, or their attendance at the wrong school, as an excuse to not pursue, or even find their passion.
Their work is largely unnoticed, so it helps to understand their quiet ways and their climate services if we are to help increase their numbers and their effectiveness.
They also use anti-Semitic tropes as a tool to prevent internal criticism of their corruption, their lack of concern for a proper medical system for their citizens, and their decision to use their resources to promote terror instead.
I think about who else has just lost their sister, their brother, their dad, their mom and their love.
I think of their warmth and the fragility of their bodies, how I could feel their little bones through their skin, their little hearts beating and pumping life through them.
Sharing their experiences of joining the industry later in their lives, many admit that they wouldn't have had the same confidence to model in their underwear in their twenties, and say it has turned their attitude towards aging around.
From their purpose-built foot-drum kit to their sharp getups to their old-school sound, everyone always leaves a Hell and Whiskey show with a shuffle in their step and the blues in their soul.
Their future is closely intertwined with the nature of their migration, their numerical numbers, their educational status, their professional attainments and above all, the majority – minority syndrome in the countries in which they have settled.
We honour people who have chronicled both the suffering of our people and their remarkable triumphs, their fears and their hopes, their everyday cares and their timeless desires.
Firing a ball is when a player place their hand or foot on top of their ball, then strike their own ball such that their opponent's ball moves away while their own ball remains in place.
He would slaughter their animals, kill their men, rape their women, enslave their children, and kill their God.
Onychophora probably do not primarily use vision to detect their prey; although their tiny eyes do have a good image-forming capacity, their forward vision is obscured by their antennae; their nocturnal habit also limits the utility of eyesight.
The colonies were united in their effort to demonstrate to the mother country their authority by virtue of their common causes and their unity; but their ultimate objectives were not consistent.
Common combinations with their
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of their 76×
- and their 70×
- in their 44×
- to their 42×
- on their 28×
- their own 25×
- for their 24×
- with their 19×
- from their 15×
- their lives 11×