How to Use or so in a Sentence

or so

phrase

• This will go on for a week or so.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• Drink now or hold for a decade or so.
  — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2026
• Dig down an inch or so, and the soil is still bone dry.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
• About where our lives had been in the past five years or so.
  — Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
• Here’s what’s been on my mind over the past week or so.
  — Stan Son, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• There are a dozen or so beers on tap that are brewed on-site.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
• It'll be announced in a week or so.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
• Season ribs and grill for eight or so hours.
  — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
• But much of the last decade or so has proved that that’s not true!
  — The Lit Hub Podcast, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
• Read on for what stores opened and closed in the last month or so.
  — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
• For a week or so in March, life could seem dark.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
• The play is a hit, of sorts, or so Duse thinks.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
• There's a woman next to her, who's around my age or so.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
• Hopes of rainfall over the next week or so are slim to none.
  — Lauren Bostwick, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
• After an hour or so, Amalia fell asleep.
  — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• Not in 35 or so years of being dear friends.
  — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
• The sun still has a long life ahead of it, say five billion years or so.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
• But technetium-99m has a very short half-life, just six hours or so.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
• This was a decision that was made last year or so.
  — Mac Engel october 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
• Pour an inch or so of tacky glue into a paper cup.
  — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 14 Mar. 2026
• The marks should be gone after a minute or so of scrubbing.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
• It was later restored, but shut down again a decade or so ago.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
• This gives it enough juice to explore the depths for up to 8 hours or so.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
• After a minute or so, the drums picked up and the chants returned.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
• On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
  — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• When shoots are a foot or so long cut them back 4 to 6 inches.
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
• Ross has been working on the book for the last 18 months or so.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 6 Feb. 2026
• Three cups of milk will make about four or so servings of hot chocolate.
  — Joe Difazio, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
• After a minute or so, the duck did end up getting back in the pond.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
• Curl toes and brace your deep core to lift knees to hover off ground just an inch or so.
  — Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023