How to Use of ours in a Sentence

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  • Harold Ramis, who was a friend of ours, came to see it.
    Rob Turbovsky, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Jay was aware of the stakes and the history of this thing of ours.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This will be the end of your world—the end of ours—the end of the world that the centuries have tethered to nothingness.
    Jean Cocteau, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • One night a neighbor of ours, the guy who built out his walls, got mugged in Central Park.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
  • Getting married was always a goal of ours, and this year just felt right.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Dear Miss Manners: Some good friends of ours, a husband and wife, have a painting of the wife in their living room.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Swiftwick has long been a favorite of ours for its amazing hiking socks.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 3 Mar. 2023
  • From there, we got purchased by Create Music Group, which was a client of ours for a year or so.
    Elias Leight, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2024
  • To me, the roots start with a favorite common topic of ours, in the third chapter of Genesis.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Given the timing, the strongest storms should tend to favor areas west of ours.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • To see the Sasquatch crew tramping across a ridge, outlined against a pearlescent sky, is to grasp the fragility of their existence, and of ours.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Her whole team, Kathlyn Horan, who produced the film is also an old friend of ours.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Dear Carolyn: The other day, my girlfriend and I were at dinner with some friends of ours, a couple.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • My husband and a good friend of ours both had high cholesterol levels and started taking a statin drug.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
  • This wheeled cooler was a favorite of ours and had one of the highest scores for portability.
    Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
  • This wheeled cooler was a favorite of ours and had one of the highest scores for portability.
    Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Finding a nice mix of younger players to complement that core will be an early goal of ours.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Some friends of ours had a question on what appeared to be a lingering snag with their 2021 child tax credit.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Finding the right pair of sneakers to traverse this beautiful world of ours can be quite a challenge.
    Kristine Thomason, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Bob Picardo, a dear friend of ours, was the officiant at our wedding.
    Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • Benn: David’s a long term friend and collaborator of ours.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • Colleagues of ours at Vox had a great story about the TikTok to Spotify pipeline.
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 17 Jan. 2023
  • His gifts for empathy, humor and tragedy have only enriched this tale of ours.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Dear Amy: About a month ago my husband and I invited two other couples, who are friends of ours, over for dinner.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The Decoding the Gurus podcast, who are friends of ours, recently did a two-hour episode on Oprah and went through her influence.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • And now, by the Hollywood of ours, which has claimed to access her mind, only to serve up a recycled stock image of a magic fetus.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • After the original tableau was stolen from the studio, a friend of ours named Julien Hohenberg in Memphis was behind the funds for Bill to start making it all over again.
    Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Garlits: That something happens to this great country of ours.
    Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This is the only example, really, of a song of ours where someone other than my wife wrote a significant amount of the lyrics.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Dec. 2023
  • With luck, even more fossils will soon bring these ancient relatives of ours into clearer view.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024

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