one of us

noun phrase

: part of one's group and thus trustworthy
Don't worry—he's one of us.

Examples of one of us in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Gave him a shot there to try to win the race, didn’t work out, but one of us won it. Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2024 So one of us was a writer, one of us was a director, one of us was the lifeguard, and David Hasselhoff was the PR guy, the star, keeping up the morale. Kathleen Perricone, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024 But it also was motivated by a desire to meet our daily question quota, and riffing off the news of the day lessened the chances one of us would accidentally duplicate (or worse yet, give away the answer to) a question that already existed in the ever-growing database. Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024 Sunday breakfast conversations often led to one of us grabbing the dictionary or encyclopedia to learn about a topic. Pedro Canahuati, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 Neither one of us is very mercurial, and things somehow happened to get taken care of. Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2024 Each one of us, ontologically speaking, is next to nothing. Robert Pogue Harrison, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024 And this really is an opportunity for each one of us to participate in the regenerative food movement. Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 His reservation, Bill finally admitted, was his suspicion that D. Keith was not one of us. Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2024

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“One of us.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20of%20us. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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