How to Use of mine in a Sentence

of mine

phrase
  • And a friend of mine for a long time.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • So that's kind of a pipe dream of mine.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • And that's when the idea of mine came about.
    Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • That was a friend of mine who had done that.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That is a lifelong dream of mine.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 29 Mar. 2026
  • That letter moved a friend of mine to tears.
    Sudhir Gupta, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But that got picked up and it’s framed like this is a beef of mine.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Where all babies are born, but not any of mine.
    Patricia Lockwood, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2026
  • All her children are alive, but one of mine is dead.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Now, any creature that eats rats is a friend of mine.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • My wife was no longer having fun with this stunt of mine.
    Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Al Saunders is a friend of mine.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Friends of mine were telling me to get a merch store up and running.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • This has been a dream of mine for so long, and so many of my fans know that.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
  • This is a long-term plan of mine is to make more authors’ work.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
  • A couple of years ago, a friend of mine lent me a pair of pants.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And that was a dream of mine for a very long time that just didn't come to fruition.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • One of the victims was the eight-year-old son of a friend of mine.
    Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to help my kids work on their homes.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 14 Dec. 2024
  • And some school friends or childhood friends of mine took me to my first game.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • Michael Showalter is an old, dear friend of mine.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
  • These guys are good friends of mine, but ain’t no friends in this business.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Then an agent of mine — not my agent — got the news, turned and gave it to me straight.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • At one point, a friend of mine looked up and saw a white boy in a shiesty.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • However that is a hope of mine.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Just a few days ago, a friend of mine died from cancer at the same age as me.
    Corey Buhay, Outside, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The manager is a friend of mine.
    Maria Torres, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That’s someone who is going to be a friend of mine for life.
    Christian Clark, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And your mother married an old boyfriend of mine.
    Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
  • And this is the beginning of mine.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026

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