Explore Yours through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Yours in a sentence
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Yours meaning
- That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
- Your house or home.
- Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
Using Yours
- The main meaning on this page is: That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun. | Your house or home. | Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
- In the example corpus, yours often appears in combinations such as: is yours, be yours, of yours.
Context around Yours
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yours
- In this selection, "yours" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, occasionally, characters, understand, added, catering and hers stand out and add context to how "yours" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include became occasionally yours catering and and but yours yours are the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yours" sits close to words such as baked, definitions and helm, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yours
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And now it could be yours. (6 words)
And so she doesn't see yours. (7 words)
Some occur as independent noun phrases: mine, yours, hers, ours, yours, theirs. (12 words)
One of many quotations in the Little Red Book (Mao's Quotations) that the Red Guards would later follow as a guide, provided by Mao, was "The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. (42 words)
Across Long Form and Shorts, Music and Podcasts, Vertical and Horizontal, YouTube is where creators are incentivized to make their best work, which means the best content, more of yours and more opportunities for advertisers. (35 words)
Anyhoo, in Wednesday Community, Jim Click Automotive (yours truly on the mound) is miraculously in the league lead at 2-1 over Healthy Skin Dermatology at 1-2. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world.
For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours.
I am an old guy my problems not yours an yours are not mine.
Your research is all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make,” Swift wrote.
Blessed weekend to you and yours as you value those ‘friends’ of yours.
If it’s not yours, it’s not yours,” the Baltimore Ravens fullback said.
To every woman in uniform, I can say ‘half the world is yours to take, but the full is yours to give’.
After ten years, Occasionally Yours added in-house dining to their repertoire and became “Occasionally Yours: Catering and Eatery”.
You play characters, yours is directly based on a real person, and, from what I understand, yours is a composite of several people.
One of many quotations in the Little Red Book (Mao's Quotations) that the Red Guards would later follow as a guide, provided by Mao, was "The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours.
Some occur as independent noun phrases: mine, yours, hers, ours, yours, theirs.
Across Long Form and Shorts, Music and Podcasts, Vertical and Horizontal, YouTube is where creators are incentivized to make their best work, which means the best content, more of yours and more opportunities for advertisers.
A libertarian is concerned with her own liberty but also knows that this liberty ends where yours begins.
All of this could be yours for a guide price £3.25 million.
And just as a follow-up thinking about the trade-off between unit sales and GPU market share is clearly an important goal of yours.
And now it could be yours.
And, of course, your hummers may prefer your neighbor’s flowers, ignoring yours.
And so she doesn't see yours.
Anyhoo, in Wednesday Community, Jim Click Automotive (yours truly on the mound) is miraculously in the league lead at 2-1 over Healthy Skin Dermatology at 1-2.
Ask a close friend or relative how they would feel if their partner treated or spoke to them the way yours does.
Common combinations with yours
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is yours 20×
- be yours 17×
- of yours 16×
- yours and 14×
- and yours 11×
- yours truly 11×
- yours is 9×
- like yours 9×
- not yours 8×
- yours for 8×