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.
  • The plan was to meet up at a bar, and then go from there.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Williams was thrilled to be out there in front of a crowd.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 12 June 2021
  • Smith couldn't get a swing on the ball in there and had to take a drop.
    — Brett Martel, ajc, 23 Apr. 2021
  • From there Reyes scored on a ground ball for a 3-2 lead.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 6 May 2022
  • Go back and look at it, maybe the bat didn’t get out there.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 22 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Brush or roll paint out from there, so the paint winds up thinnest at the edges.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Click the headlines to read the full stories, and stay safe out there.
    — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
  • And these people have the blueprint on how to get there.
    — Amanda Nachman, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2021
  • There’s not a lot of products out there that are like this.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2022
  • And have the kind of power to be able to drive the ball to the opposite field says a lot right there.
    — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 22 July 2023
  • There was a need for a pumper engine able to fight fires at new heights.
    — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 6 July 2017
  • But at the very base of the thing, that's where the excavator was taking big boulders out of there.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • Mitch Marner could have moved there, but remained at right wing.
    — Mark Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • Ahead, take a look at the guests’ barely-there, strappy shoe styles from the evening.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 14 June 2026
  • But the Cavs didn’t stop there.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 June 2026
  • Artist Adriana Adelson, from Rio de Janeiro was there.
    — Miami Herald, 14 June 2026

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