How to Use else in a Sentence

else

1 of 2 adverb

• We decided to go someplace else for dinner.
• Three men clapped and urged others to join, but no one else did.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• At the end of the day, surfing comes ahead of everything else.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
• Soon enough, someone else enters the room and the moment has passed.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• What works best for you might not work best for someone else.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• There seemed to be no place to go that someone else hadn’t been before.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• That said, there’s a high chance a game of golf will be in the cards for you or someone else in your party.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2024
• Now, most of those women will need to find somewhere else to go.
  — Caroline Kitchener, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• While no one else's meat was as tough as mine, the consensus from our group of six was that the food was bad.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• There is no one else quite like him signed to the label – or to any label, for that matter.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 29 June 2023
• To pass it along for someone else to pick up on the meaning and make their own meaning.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• During much of the journey, Booth posed as someone else.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• Who else is ready for a taste-test of this cinnamon goodness?
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2024
• The snack that smiles back is bringing us something else to grin about: Goldfish Crisps.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Dec. 2023
• There’s always movies about the white person who goes in and saves the day in this foreign country, and no one else could have.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• Then a third friend phoned and blurted out what nobody else wanted to say: Kip was the one who had opened fire at Thurston.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Mathis couldn’t say anything else at this point, but the good news is there are no broken bones.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Monique was among the dwindling group of people who hadn’t found somewhere else to go by the bitter end, June 30.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• But, like everything else on the planet, there are too many choices to count.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 17 Jan. 2024
• What happened next at the Everard spoke to the climate of the times perhaps more than anything else.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Above all else, this tiny bar gets raucous as the evening goes on, and is notably one of the most fun late night bars in London at the moment.
  — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Ensure a tight seal by pairing it with — what else? — robust duct tape.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• And since then, Biden has said virtually nothing to the press — not about Hunter Biden, the fires or anything else.
  — NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Here’s what else to know — including how Cubs and White Sox players have fared.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• Not much else is known about the show, but fans can expect vet tech Emily (Katherine Kelly) to reprise her role.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 9 July 2023
• No one else was injured in the accident, which led to lane closures on I-30 westbound.
  — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
• Cal Ripken is somebody who has done something that nobody else has been able to do.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
• Grab books, a power bank, a tablet, a pack of cards or anything else to keep yourself awake and entertained.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 26 June 2023
• Over the last two decades, Walt Disney Concert Hall has blazed cultural trails like no place else.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• In streaming, there is still Netflix and then there is everyone else.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023

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else

2 of 2 adjective

• Have someone else mark the arrow an inch in front of the bow handle.
  — Andrew Del-Colle and Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
• If one child dies on the school’s watch, nothing else matters.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
• Abell bet $999, and everyone else bet it all (smart move).
  — Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 19 Oct. 2017
• At the start, people were like 'no one's going to watch someone else play video games.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
• Let somebody else drive while the owner goes about their business.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2017
• For everyone else reading at home, maybe skip the bees and stick with the standard belly kiss shot.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 1 Sep. 2017
• The lip bite that made everyone else question their own marriages.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 19 May 2018
• But the Eagles have something else in common with most of the teams that won with backup quarterbacks.
  — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• Either way, there will be something else to worship soon enough.
  — Ed Hammondbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• To put him on the 40-man, and thus give him a chance to get called up in September, the Rockies would have had to cut somebody else and risk losing them on waivers.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• Does having smaller-yield weapons reduce the chance someone else attacks first, or increase the change that nukes would be used first?
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• At that heartbreaking point, there was nothing else doctors could do.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Nothing else catches us up in such singleness of purpose or gives us so righteous a high.
  — Fred Niedner, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• And that’s too bad, because these latest sequel flops have something else in common.
  — Jesse Hassenger, The Verge, 21 June 2019
• As long as the Norse continue winning, nothing else matters.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• So Trump's White House had spent months attempting -- without success -- to find someone else to enter the race and challenge Flake.
  — Eric Bradner, CNN, 25 Oct. 2017
• It is not based on concerns for their family's safety or anything else people might read.
  — Eileen Reslen, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2017
• Her desire to be somebody else — anybody else — is really telling.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• Once Alabama decides to shred you apart with its passing game, nothing else matters.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 17 Sep. 2019
• Vegetarians should order something else or stick to the drinks.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 14 June 2019
• Both men have something else in common: They are largely unfazed by criticism or bad press.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2018
• December may make a great time to start a meditation practice, watch a TED Talk a day for 20 days, or find something else that inspires your very own peace on earth.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2019
• Like all of their Blizzards, the new addition will indeed remain in place when turned upside down, and will be served upside down—or else customers will receive the next one free.
  — Matt McNulty, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2019
• Public goods have an inherent free-rider problem: For anyone who can, the impulse is to let someone else foot the bill, and simply consume the public good for free.
  — Noah Smith, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
• But the 18-year-old quadruplets from South Jersey have something else in common: All four are pursuing careers in medicine, following the path of their late mother, who died when the teens were 2.
  — Emily Babay, Philly.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• After all, to the angry populist Right, winning is everything, and nothing else matters.
  — David French, National Review, 1 Aug. 2017
• Yes, museum-going restores the soul, but at the New York museum this May, a trip to the temple of dinosaurs and dioramas will restore something else: sleep.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
• And a year or two in a lower circuit might be just what some team owners — MLS or otherwise — need to either improve their product, or step aside and let somebody else run the business.
  — Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2017
• Dylan Bundy's starts are back to being an occasion, and if nothing else matters in this lost Orioles season, there's plenty of solace to be taken in that.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 12 June 2018
• Besides focusing on health, the rival packages have something else in common.
  — Alan Fram, The Seattle Times, 13 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 3 May 2024