How to Use there in a Sentence

there

adverb
  • I drove the kids there.
  • Turn there at the church.
  • Go to your room and stay there.
  • I used to live near there.
  • When will you be there?
  • Put the package there on the table.
  • What do you see out there?
  • If we leave now, we should get there by noon.
  • She was sitting there a minute ago.
  • They have lived there for 30 years.
  • Williams was thrilled to be out there in front of a crowd.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 12 June 2021
  • The plan was to meet up at a bar, and then go from there.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Many of them would do the same stuff over and over again out there.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The coach that took him there left the prep school after two weeks on the job.
    NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Smith couldn't get a swing on the ball in there and had to take a drop.
    Brett Martel, ajc, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Click on the headlines to read them, and stay safe out there.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Tried to aim left of the bridge, hit a low chaser down there.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
  • Go back and look at it, maybe the bat didn’t get out there.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 22 Oct. 2022
  • And these people have the blueprint on how to get there.
    Amanda Nachman, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Brush or roll paint out from there, so the paint winds up thinnest at the edges.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • There was a need for a pumper engine able to fight fires at new heights.
    Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 6 July 2017
  • There’s not a lot of products out there that are like this.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Coach told me to just go out there and trust your training.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • My advice to those people would be to be there as a friend.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But would moving there still perhaps be the best thing for him?
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2022
  • There were young women there from all over the country.
    Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Her friends volunteered to come along to be there for her.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Nor was there the year before, or the year before that.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Looking for a great new reason to get out there and get your jog on?
    SELF, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Kate suspected but did not say that none of it was grown there.
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

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