How to Use or else in a Sentence

or else

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• Go ahead and find dirt on my enemies or else.
  — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
• Vehicles can't park there or else they will be towed.
  — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
• His son was with him at times or else lived with Akasha’s mother.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
• This has got to be like the three-year policy or else this is crazy.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 12 June 2024
• Don't hide your main point in the fourth paragraph or else nobody will read it.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• She was called a French doll, or else a boudoir doll, or else a fashion doll.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Be nice or else Stendahl's robots will get you.
  — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
• Don’t go in the woods at night, characters tell each other, or else.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2025
• All of the stories take place within cities, or else on the road between cities.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• But a clown who makes no one laugh is not a clown, or else is stuck in a Beckett play.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Be self-aware — or else others might need to wake you up from your obsession.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
• But children’s fate, through the passage of years is to become grown-up or else dead.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• The trick is to give them something to climb, or else their vines will languish in a mildewy mess on the ground.
  — Alex Testere, Saveur, 24 July 2024
• Google has 60 days to make changes to its services, or else risk even more daily fines.
  — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026
• Trump told the Chinese to keep their hands off of Taiwan — or else.
  — CNBC, 17 July 2024
• In this group, every member is required to post something or else be kicked out.
  — Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 16 May 2025
• Gang leaders have to pay their soldiers or else risk being overthrown.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• That’s a clear message to others to get in line and knuckle under — or else.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
• Most people seemed to be couples, or else parents with children.
  — Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
• Congress must pass a funding bill by the end of this week, or else the government will shut down.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Nov. 2023
• By rule, the ball must be fully out of the shooter’s hands before the buzzer, or else the shot doesn’t count.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2025
• Just take careful steps and maintain a sense of direction … or else you may get lost along the way.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Giants have to be humming in Week 1 right out of the gate — or else.
  — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
• Perhaps the dog was trying to help, or else just being nosey about who else was traveling on the flight.
  — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
• All the vouchers had to be used by a certain date, or else the federal government would take them back.
  — Lucy Tompkins, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024
• On play one, Moore reads the tight end throwback pass and disrupts the catch (or else the tight end might still be running).
  — Dane Brugler, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• Trump urged them to negotiate a ceasefire or else trade deals with the governments would stall.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
• The go-getter woman needs a better alibi, or else to quit telling stories.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
• Trump had urged them to negotiate a ceasefire or else trade deals with the governments would stall.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
• Each of these building blocks needs to be placed perfectly or else the enzyme will slow down or completely shut off.
  — Sam Pellock, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2025