one of our/your/their number
idiom
formal
: one person from our/your/their group
One of their number went missing.
Examples of one of our/your/their number in a Sentence
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But what really put them in the public eye was something totally unrelated: the shocking death of one of their number in April 1919.
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Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2025
Protesters and police traded accusations of brutality, with the police saying one of their number had been killed and more than 70 injured.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
The strangers pose an impossible choice to the family: pick one of their number to sacrifice, or risk a global apocalypse.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
The six wanted the select committee investigating the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation taken away from Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and given to one of their number, who would then choose the rest of the GOP the committee members.
—Karl Rove, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
Plays in which characters struggle not with each other but with the mortality of one of their number are able to unify audiences of all races, creeds and ages.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022
They have been observed in various mourning behaviors when one of their number dies.
—New York Times, 14 June 2022
The task force turns to Red (James Spader) for help when one of their number is captured by a cartel leader.
—Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
Nonetheless, the following morning one of their number, supposedly safe behind a locked door, is discovered horribly torn to pieces.
—Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
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Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2025
Protesters and police traded accusations of brutality, with the police saying one of their number had been killed and more than 70 injured.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
The strangers pose an impossible choice to the family: pick one of their number to sacrifice, or risk a global apocalypse.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
The six wanted the select committee investigating the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation taken away from Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and given to one of their number, who would then choose the rest of the GOP the committee members.
—Karl Rove, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
Plays in which characters struggle not with each other but with the mortality of one of their number are able to unify audiences of all races, creeds and ages.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022
They have been observed in various mourning behaviors when one of their number dies.
—New York Times, 14 June 2022
The task force turns to Red (James Spader) for help when one of their number is captured by a cartel leader.
—Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
Nonetheless, the following morning one of their number, supposedly safe behind a locked door, is discovered horribly torn to pieces.
—Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
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“One of our/your/their number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20of%20our%2Fyour%2Ftheir%20number. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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