How to Use hither and yon in a Sentence

hither and yon

idiom
  • Throngs of guests and groupies would have pushed en masse toward the doors, the chroniclers of street style running hither and yon around them like a cloud of swarming gnats.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • On my 33rd birthday, friends from hither and yon e-mailed best wishes for my Jesus year, an allusion to Christ's earthly life span.
    Hamilton Cain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The mPOA tosses long nerve fibers, called axons, like lassos hither and yon to network with other important brain clumps.
    Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Delays occur there as well, due to shortages of shipping containers — and of dockworkers to unload the cargo, and truck drivers to bring the books hither and yon.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Making these objects both large and small was not an activity conducive for a hobo riding the rails hither and yon with few possessions.
    Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • According to oral tradition, the two systems incorporated a pre-1883 hodgepodge of pipes – some wooden, wells, and springs that ran in a crazy quilt hither and yon.
    Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
  • That enormous increase of money beginning to flow hither and yon, once started, will be unstoppable without drastic actions being taken.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • If lobbying shops could be Marvel supervillains, the National Rifle Association would surely be right up there in the pantheon, harnessing some new source of infinite energy to wreak havoc hither and yon.
    Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • In exhibition planning, original artworks sit safely in packing crates, or hang elsewhere, while models of them are moved hither and yon with relatively little care so curators and designers can determine their layout in a gallery.
    Peter Libbey, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'hither and yon.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: