How to Use or otherwise in a Sentence

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• If there’s work to be done — health or otherwise — go for it.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
• There will be no more gifts, baby or otherwise.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026
• Can a dog knock it over, wade in it or otherwise destroy it or hurt itself?
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
• Do not use parchment paper when grilling or otherwise near an open flame.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
• Kitchens in Maine, lost or otherwise, are never far from the source.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
• Find out why one casserole skeptic makes this at least once a month—fall or otherwise.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
• But any act of love, free or otherwise, can land with the same joy as unwrapping a present.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
• The Kalimotxo is for wine that is old, or cheap, or otherwise just lying around.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
• The group preached the gospel and prayed with members who were sick or otherwise homebound.
  — April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
• Yet beans, canned or otherwise, are still one of the cheapest protein sources around.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
• They should not be thrown, jumped off, eaten, screamed at, or otherwise befouled.
  — Eddie Small, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2026
• For any playoff series, real or otherwise, teams need an ace in goal.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
• Then watch, read, or otherwise look at the ones your partner tells you about on your own time and talk about it later.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 2 May 2024
• To live in any tough scenario, on land or otherwise, animals must adapt.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 18 Mar. 2026
• Of course, no one should seek out or stay in a role working under a rude, or otherwise toxic, boss.
  — Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
• Brooks and Johnson were their clear best picks, value or otherwise.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2023
• Chance, luck, and accidents, happy or otherwise, play no role in their tale.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2024
• Johnson’s career was built on the backs of romances, comedic or otherwise.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
• And try to set up regular things in your life—work, social, or otherwise—that get you out of the house.
  — Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
• Where is the romance, twisted or otherwise?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
• It may be buried in the earth or sea, cremated, or otherwise returned to nature.
  — Simone Talma Flowers, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• To Boardman, the chance to donate acorns or otherwise help out is a no brainer.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
• Most plants don’t intimidate me, in the kitchen or otherwise.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• This is one of the best laptops on the market, Apple or otherwise.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026
• There are random time jumps, and the scenes go on for too long or otherwise reveal themselves to be pointless.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• Any major brand in the game long enough, soda or otherwise, will suffer some missteps and mishaps.
  — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
• Most of those aerial attacks were thwarted by Ukraine or otherwise failed, the air force said.
  — Lilia Geho, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2025
• Much like a tank, a white tee is one of the hardest-working pieces in any capsule wardrobe, summer or otherwise.
  — Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 7 July 2026
• The latest string of Gosling’s films include few misfires on their posters or otherwise.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
• Think about all the couples, celebrities or otherwise, who never announce a thing.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 4 July 2025