How to Use therefore in a Sentence

therefore

adverb
  • The cell phone is thin and light and therefore very convenient to carry around.
  • Payment was received two weeks after it was due; therefore, you will be charged a late fee.
  • The past lives in the past and is therefore non-existent in the present.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 29 July 2022
  • But my partner made the money and therefore called the shots.
    Hazlitt, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Their fates make sense to them, and therefore to us as well.
    New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Most of the looks are not even produced and therefore never get to the shop floor.
    Marc Bain, Quartzy, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Grace, therefore, is next in line to play this game of fate.
    Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • And then the sun set, and rose again, and therefore that pledge was worthless.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 May 2017
  • Your best defense is, therefore, to shut it and bolt the thing down.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The skin of older patients is therefore more prone to injury in the first place.
    Matthew Steinhauser, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
  • And therefore, there isn’t any reason to take pride in it.
    Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
  • Who politicized the virus – and, therefore, the vaccine?
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • My friend who is a bartender, and who therefore has to wash their hands a lot.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Most of us have a dominant side, and therefore a stronger turn side on the hill.
    Anna Fiorentino, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Would a bad thing therefore be, in one respect, a good thing?
    Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Not friends who are boys and therefore have a different set of rules.
    Courtney Hazlett, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • White outfits, therefore, were viewed as a sign of wealth.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 18 June 2022
  • The best way to get your bearings, therefore, is with a walking tour.
    Jonathan Thompson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Some schools have purchased shields that fit on the helmet and therefore don’t have to wear masks.
    Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Labs therefore have to take an extra step and sequence the virus to find this variant.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Some people have to stay at home and therefore need broadband at their house.
    Nolan Ezzet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • It will therefore no longer be allowed to use our services.
    Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The grotesquerie is edged with triumph and therefore not remote from truth.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2022
  • And two is, therefore: how are we supposed to think about childcare and schools?
    The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
  • And therefore, where will the planes need to be taking off from globally?
    TheWeek, 29 Nov. 2020
  • So an entire league therefore would have to be put on hold for the play-in element.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • So therefore, that's shaky ground under all of our feet and in all aspects of our life.
    NBC News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • It is still used very rarely, and is therefore highly collectible.
    Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Without them, there’s no light in the universe and, therefore, no life.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The only males present in these groups are therefore juveniles.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017

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