pronoun
definition
That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.
Examples of ours in a Sentence
We all remember ours but yours is missing.
But ours is better.
Ours must have got the best of it.
But if it were a world like ours, I imagine it would be okay, right?
If it had been from the cold, ours would not have rotted either.
It's the way ours will.
The French line was wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us on both sides.
Nothing is ours besides our will.
The days are distributed in the calendar into cycles of sixty, in the same manner as ours are distributed into weeks, or cycles of seven.
Ours is a many-sided, a many-coloured world.
No, this one is ours.
And the money is ours, not mine.
But the choice will be ours and will be made based on facts.
In the midst of the peasants themselves there lived a consciousness of their special claims as to tenant right, claims which sometimes assumed the shape of the quaint saying, "The land is ours, though we are yours."
He occupied a portion of his leisure in writing a book, entitled This Country of Ours (1897), treating of the organization and administration of the government of the United States, and a collection of essays by him was published posthumously, in 1901, under the title Views of an Ex-President.
It was ours yesterday, but now it is his.
She is not like ours.
The standard day is longer than ours, about thirty hours instead of twenty-four, with that divided evenly between day and night.
In it Peisistratus is made to say of himself that he "collected Homer, who was formerly sung in fragments, for the golden poet was a citizen of ours, since we Athenians founded Smyrna."
The chief distinction between his mode of conceiving the world and ours is his vast extension of the theory of personality.
Morever, the manner in which space and time had been treated made it possible for him to regard these as contingent forms, necessary for intelligences like ours, but not to be viewed as absolutely necessary.
This was Howie's problem, not ours.
He may be a very bad man but we won't know until we have a friend of ours check the license plate.
He won't pick ours.
This universe of ours is only one section out of the innumerable worlds in infinite space; other worlds may present systems very different from that of our own.
He was so loved and honoured by his Syrians that, when he invited them to avenge the blood of Othman, they replied unanimously, "It is your part to command, ours to obey."
The orbits thus present themselves to us in the words of a distinguished writer as " Great clocks of eternity which beat ages as ours beat seconds."
They did not serve as the connecting links of formed experience; on the contrary, they were supposed to be absolutely dissevered from all experience which was possible for intelligence like ours.
I give this order in my brother's name; and tell them that what is ours is theirs.
You want me to think of all this as ours, but how can I when you insist that the problems are all yours?
There's nothing that would make him choose the immortal world over ours.
Are you comfortable saying it won't be ours?
I don't know what's true about Darian destroying a world, but the Others would do everything they could to destroy ours.
This is the creature that attacked one of ours?
In the introduction to his work Von der Weltseele, however, he argues in favour of the possibility of a transmutation of species in periods incommensurable with ours.
Then came a theological and disciplinary controversy with Virgil, the Irish bishop of Salzburg, who held, among other heresies, that there were other worlds than ours.
All these histories are more or less thrown into the shade by the great work of Tabari (q.v.), whose fame has never faded from his own day to ours.
Reflection shows that our apprehension of the tree is conditioned by the sense-organs with which we have been endowed, and that the apprehension of a blind man, and still more the apprehension of a dog or horse, is quite different from ours.
In the second part it is virtually a new Faust who, at the hands of a new Mephistopheles, goes out into a world that is not ours.
On the other hand, it is fair to remember that the taste of Ephraim's countrymen in poetry was very different from ours.
Out of the vague and limitless body there sprung a central mass, - this earth of ours, cylindrical in shape, poised equidistant from surrounding orbs of fire, which had originally clung to it like the bark round a tree, until their continuity was severed, and they parted into several wheelshaped and fire-filled bubbles of air.
Those of the desert region are only slight indentations in a remarkably uniform coast-line, sheltered on H arb ours.
They contain elaborate provision for dealing with crime, but the standpoint from which it is regarded and treated is essentially different from ours.
Every project of a material change in a government so complicated as ours is a matter full of difficulties; in which a considerate man will not be too ready to decide, a prudent man too ready to undertake, or an honest man too ready to promise."
He will end ours to preserve his.
I have used distant Reiju to attune two people who were not attune two people who were not attuned previously - the children of a friend of ours.
Traditionally, turkeys like ours were sold by independent family butchers, or by the farmer in the local market.
Good luck with your initial consultation, we found ours really good.
But thank God for John's first epistle, an epistle of certainty for his age and ours, which are ages of uncertainty.
During a journey in the South a train passed ours and in were two cleanly dressed men traveling first-class.