How to Use pronoun in a Sentence

pronoun

noun
Definition of pronounnext
  • Don’t get triggered, and leave your pronouns at the door.
    — Skyler Higley, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2023
  • There’s always the fight for the correct pronouns and names to be used.
    — Alex Berg /, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The use of they/them as a singular pronoun has been around for a while.
    — Aaron Kwittken, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • No one hides or switches up the pronouns in love songs any more.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • The second is is the verb for the pronoun who, whose antecedent in this sentence is people.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Kai, who uses he/they pronouns, said the singing and chanting was his favorite part of the event.
    — Ellie Wolfe, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Living in the world today where you can get fired for using the wrong pronoun?
    — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • So in kindergarten, Smith’s child became a boy, with short hair, male pronouns and a new name.
    — Washington Post, 23 May 2017
  • The job of a relative pronoun is to head up a clause that modifies a noun.
    — June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 8 Aug. 2019
  • What are the preferred gender pronouns for Rebel droids?
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
  • Koko the gorilla earned her pronouns a long, long time ago.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 June 2018
  • The event ended around 9 p.m. Yates, who uses they/them pronouns, said the event had been joyful.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • How an actor gives an intonation on a pronoun can change the whole tone of the scene.
    — Brian Porreca, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2017
  • Gladstone, who uses she/they pronouns, won for their role in Killers of the Flower Moon.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Now, those kids are adults who rail against pronouns, TikTok, and a movie about Barbie.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • And then what happens to the neutral pronoun when adjectives need to be used?
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • There have been lawsuits filed in other states on the use of transgender pronouns and rights in schools.
    — CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Shupe — who prefers the pronouns they, them and their — spent their childhood, adolescence and most of adulthood as a male.
    — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 21 June 2017
  • The struggle for neutral pronouns reared at other times as well.
    — Leanne Italie, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • In each sentence pair, the one-word difference can change which thing or person a pronoun refers to.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2021
  • But Renton, who uses they/he pronouns, said they’re used to having to fight for their rights.
    — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
  • My 12-year-old has friends who are gay, bi and trans, and is way more at ease with binary pronouns than many of my adult friends.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • During the emerging artists panel, the 41-year-old singer said her pronoun of choice is goddess.
    — Thomas Ilalaole, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Schools are churning out children who say their pronouns but can’t read them.
    — Nikki Haley, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • To write about Pauli Murray means choosing a pronoun that may not be correct.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Nasdaq will help boards find directors with the right skin tone or pronoun.
    — Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The correct pronoun to use in police reports is the one the person tells the officer to use, the video instructed.
    — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Friends and family said Benedict used he and him pronouns as well as they and them pronouns.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Please share your full name and pronouns for credit and caption info.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Paul, who uses they/them pronouns, was born in Korea in 1990 and raised in Chicago by two white parents.
    — Maya Cederlund, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024

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