pronoun
definition
That which belongs to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
Examples of theirs in a Sentence
Now, take theirs and do the same.
My place was on the street behind theirs, one house over so the corners of our lots touched.
The rest of the night was theirs to spend as they pleased.
Its arrival pre-dated theirs, as it would have passed them back in the basin.
Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
She does not look like one of theirs.
She was roused from her reverie by the talk of the maids in the next room (which was theirs) and by the sound of their hurried footsteps going to the back porch.
Unlike the cold rain of her father's energy, theirs was warm and cheerful, like her bond to Jule.
Theirs were not the everyday experiences of ordinary men, but of men lifted out of themselves and transported into a higher sphere.
The United States mine nearly all of their iron ores, Austria-Hungary, Russia and France mine the greater part of theirs, but none of these countries exports much ore.
Many of them are known as "Jogi," and lay claim to miraculous powers which they declare have become theirs by the practice of abstinence and extreme austerities.
It was going to be hard, maybe even harder than finding his soul in the underworld, but the opportunity was theirs for the taking.
His theories of life were very different from theirs; and they had taken a strong line against his Maxims of the Saints, holding that visionary theories of perfection were ill-fitted for a world where even the holiest could.
This knowledge of theirs was not based on reflection, on scientific inquiry and proof, but on revelation.
It was theirs to do with as they pleased and they chose to give it to you.
Children seldom have any difficulty in understanding her; which suggests that her deliberate measured speech is like theirs, before they come to the adult trick of running all the words of a phrase into one movement of the breath.
By these treaties, negotiated in 1866, the Cherokees gave the United States permission to settle other Indians on what was approximately the western half of their domain; the Seminoles, to whom the Creeks in 1855 had granted as their portion the strip between the Canadian river and its North Fork, ceded all of theirs, and the Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws ceded the western half of theirs back to the United States for occupancy by freedmen or other Indians.
His disciples speak of theirs as the "exact philosophy," and the term well expresses their master's chief excellence and the character of the chief influence he has exerted upon succeeding thinkers of his own and other schools.
The afternoon was theirs to use as they wished, and he always knew the best way to use it.
And yet he knew war was not so simple between two clans with a history of blood feud as theirs had.
She brought both hands to her face, realizing the diamond was theirs and then fell into his arms.
The Chickasaws ceded their lands to the United States in 1816 and the Choctaws theirs in 1830-1832; and they removed to the Indian Territory.
In this it resembled the middle ages rather than the Roman empire or the present day, and it resembled them all the more in that its love of beauty, like theirs, was mixed with a feeling for the fantastic and the grotesque.
Moreover, if the white light come from a source at a higher temperature than theirs, the sections, or lines, absorbed by them show dark against a continuous background.
It wasn't her business – it was theirs.
A slave of theirs had denounced them to the Holy Office, and though the details of the accusation against them seem trivial and even contradictory, Antonio was condemned to death.
They seemed very helpless in that pit of theirs.
It seemed an invasion of his privacy, but he had insisted that it was now all theirs, not his.
The Jews claimed that the city was theirs, because King Herod had founded it.
But it does not, like theirs, sacrifice our personality; because, according to Fechner, the one divine consciousness includes us as a larger circle includes smaller circles.
How this religion may have grown up and come to be theirs will be considered later.
There were no sounds, no movement but theirs.
He had actually talked about the baby as if it were theirs.
But the chief responsibility was not his but theirs.
Such a basis could not be found, and when Charles stirred up a fresh civil war and a Scottish invasion (1648) the leaders of the army vowed that, if victory was theirs, they would bring him to justice.
My family and my pack will have to make theirs.
It is to be monistic ideal realism, like that of Fichte and Hegel; not, however, like theirs idealistic in method, a Phantastisches Begrifsgebaude, but realistic in method, a Wissenschaftliche Philosophie.
Tell them what job you would like to perform (theirs).
My biggest tip is to get out of your own head and into theirs.
The two stayed together through the years, even attempting to be lovers once, though they quickly realized theirs was a relationship of brother and sister.
Her gaze followed her finger as she rested it on her name below theirs.
The big names listed above will send theirs for free.
Orpheus, Linus, Thamyris and Eumolpus were theirs, and in later days the Dardanii were noted for their love of music as well as for their uncleanliness.
Protestantism; on the contrary, he yearned to beat these by their own weapons, chiefly by showing them that Catholics could interpret the Bible in a manner quite as mystical and pietistic as theirs.
As the assemblies, said he, could not make permanent laws without the king's consent, " neither could he make a law for them without theirs."
The clergy naturally stoutly defended the powers which they had long enjoyed and believed to be rightly theirs.
Thus he traversed France, avoiding all ceremony, entering towns by back streets, receiving ambassadors in wayside huts, dining in public houses, enjoying the loose manners and language of his associates, and incidentally learning at first hand the condition of his people and the possibilities of using or taxing them - his needs of them rather than theirs of him.
His efforts resulted in their liberation; he went himself to Brest in search of them; and a civic feast was decreed on his behalf and theirs, which gave occasion for one of the few poems published during his life by Andre Chenier.
But his fame and influence now far exceeded theirs.
The Black God's vamps haven't lost theirs, Damian said.