How to Use one or the other in a Sentence

one or the other

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• If one or the other is tripped, turn that back on and test again.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
• Got muscles and a truck — or just one or the other?
  — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
• Show us both as moms and workers, don’t just show one or the other.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Sport and street bikes, on the other hand, can focus on one or the other.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
• Next week, maybe something else historic will take one or the other’s place.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• But wasn’t the preference one or the other?
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
• The need to trade one or the other is for now a false choice, and the Mets should feel no rush.
  — William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
• Pick one or the other, or do a ghostie on one side and the eight-legged beastie on the other.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2023
• So instead of a maze of plans, borrowers would pick one or the other.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
• What are the factors that would help determine one or the other?
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Conversely, a poor showing could force one or the other to end their bid.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Because in the end, the future doesn’t belong to one or the other.
  — Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
• If disaster strikes one or the other, some birds will survive.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2023
• Some plants prefer one or the other, depending on how long the plant has been in the ground.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2023
• That didn’t exist the first two seasons, which forced athletes to choose one or the other.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
• In practice, many older investors don't choose one or the other.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
• Doing both spikes your risk 5-fold over engaging in just one or the other.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Jan. 2025
• And, of course, a lot of us are not interested in being one or the other.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• This will be the seventh straight major tournament won by one or the other.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 13 July 2025
• The only caveat would be if one or the other hurts their chances of landing someone to finish games.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Would more casual moviegoers be forced to pick one or the other, though?
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 20 July 2023
• Well, some songs reflect one or the other of us in particular.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
• Local wine-tasting tours combine one or the other with vineyard stops.
  — Jamie Moore, USA TODAY, 5 June 2024
• Still, viewers don’t have to pick one or the other, despite the discourse egging viewers on to do so.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• So many of our favorite moments as a family revolve around one or the other.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2022
• About 40 people came to support one or the other viewpoint.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
• The majority of the Sudan team are on the books of one or the other of the two clubs.
  — Adam Leventhal, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
• At one or the other point, everybody will come to know the latest trends happening around them.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Too often onscreen, Black women only get to be one or the other — if that.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2024
• Your customers can be tightwads or spendthrifts, and your products may be oriented to one or the other.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025