How to Use therefore in a Sentence

therefore

adverb

• The cell phone is thin and light and therefore very convenient to carry around.
• Payment was received two weeks after it was due; therefore, you will be charged a late fee.
• The past lives in the past and is therefore non-existent in the present.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 29 July 2022
• Grace, therefore, is next in line to play this game of fate.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Their fates make sense to them, and therefore to us as well.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• And then the sun set, and rose again, and therefore that pledge was worthless.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 May 2017
• Your best defense is, therefore, to shut it and bolt the thing down.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• But my partner made the money and therefore called the shots.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Nov. 2023
• Most of the looks are not even produced and therefore never get to the shop floor.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 7 Sep. 2019
• Who politicized the virus – and, therefore, the vaccine?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 July 2021
• Some are sweet, some are tart, some are N/A and therefore aren’t even liqueurs.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2021
• And therefore, there isn’t any reason to take pride in it.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
• My friend who is a bartender, and who therefore has to wash their hands a lot.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2024
• Would a bad thing therefore be, in one respect, a good thing?
  — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
• The skin of older patients is therefore more prone to injury in the first place.
  — Matthew Steinhauser, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
• Most of us have a dominant side, and therefore a stronger turn side on the hill.
  — Anna Fiorentino, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2022
• White outfits, therefore, were viewed as a sign of wealth.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 18 June 2022
• The best way to get your bearings, therefore, is with a walking tour.
  — Jonathan Thompson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2021
• In turn, the greater the rise in blood sugar, the greater the insulin response, and therefore the lower the GI score the better.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 23 Mar. 2023
• Without them, there’s no light in the universe and, therefore, no life.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Nov. 2021
• Some schools have purchased shields that fit on the helmet and therefore don’t have to wear masks.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2020
• For now, the Milky Way is a spiral, with arms that are the main nurseries for stars (and therefore planets).
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• The big Isuzu is comfortable to ride in, and therefore likable.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
• Puigdemont says the vote was legal and therefore the charges linked to it have no basis.
  — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2024
• And so therefore, I’m not entitled to the copyright on it.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
• And two is, therefore: how are we supposed to think about childcare and schools?
  — The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
• Not friends who are boys and therefore have a different set of rules.
  — Courtney Hazlett, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• That night, my parents sent me — the youngest and cutest and therefore the most convincing — to run across the street and knock on their door.
  — Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024
• The current is warming now and therefore speeding up, and its course is more southerly—all of which erodes the Antarctic ice sheet.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
• The Fukushima peaches would therefore be no more radioactively contaminated than those grown in a London back garden.
  — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024