How to Use of ours in a Sentence
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Jay was aware of the stakes and the history of this thing of ours.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
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That's a big advantage of ours.
—Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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Swiftwick has long been a favorite of ours for its amazing hiking socks.
—Mike Richard, Men's Health, 3 Mar. 2023
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Getting married was always a goal of ours, and this year just felt right.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
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And another friend of ours from that bar encouraged me to write songs.
—Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2024
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The Bidens will indeed decide their future — and the rest of ours as well.
—Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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In this business of ours, there are stories, and there are Stories.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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Finding a nice mix of younger players to complement that core will be an early goal of ours.
—Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
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One night a neighbor of ours, the guy who built out his walls, got mugged in Central Park.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
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His gifts for empathy, humor and tragedy have only enriched this tale of ours.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2024
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Given the timing, the strongest storms should tend to favor areas west of ours.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
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My husband and a good friend of ours both had high cholesterol levels and started taking a statin drug.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
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The colonizer’s poetry has no bones next to the lyric of ours.
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
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This will be the end of your world—the end of ours—the end of the world that the centuries have tethered to nothingness.
—Jean Cocteau, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
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Finding the right pair of sneakers to traverse this beautiful world of ours can be quite a challenge.
—Kristine Thomason, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
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With luck, even more fossils will soon bring these ancient relatives of ours into clearer view.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024
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Bob Picardo, a dear friend of ours, was the officiant at our wedding.
—Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
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There are a couple crew members of ours who are [polyamorous] and they were really stoked about the storyline.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Her whole team, Kathlyn Horan, who produced the film is also an old friend of ours.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2023
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Most of these 10 sandwiches draw from the rainbow blaze of cultures that make up this country of ours.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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To me, the roots start with a favorite common topic of ours, in the third chapter of Genesis.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
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From there, we got purchased by Create Music Group, which was a client of ours for a year or so.
—Elias Leight, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2024
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His brother, Yaman, who was missing under the rubble, was also a friend of ours.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 July 2024
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There aren’t that many rules in this flavor business of ours, but separating Cognac and lime juice might be one of them.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 22 June 2024
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Some friends of ours had a question on what appeared to be a lingering snag with their 2021 child tax credit.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2023
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He was brought to us by Rick Ocasek, who loved our band and produced a single of ours, and Neil signed us to his label.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
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To see the Sasquatch crew tramping across a ridge, outlined against a pearlescent sky, is to grasp the fragility of their existence, and of ours.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
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Another favorite of ours from the brand is its Universal Sandal.
—Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
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This is the only example, really, of a song of ours where someone other than my wife wrote a significant amount of the lyrics.
—Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Dec. 2023
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There is something profound about P-22’s magnitude and this collective grief of ours.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
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