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Definition of "yours" []
- Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to you: The larger boots are yours. If I can't find my book, I'll take yours. (pronoun)
- Used often with an adverbial modifier in the complimentary close of a letter: Sincerely yours. (pronoun)
- Yours truly I, myself, or me: "Let me talk about a typical day in the life of yours truly” ( Robert A. Spivey). (idiom)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Use "yours" in a sentence
- "Your vote is sacred Kali Star, it is * yours* and yours alone, your voice, your right and your might."
- "Hell the way I feel this moment . how I really look at anything and feel scorned how just an email prior to yours I believed him so faith fully and the one that came right after yours "
- "_Mine, ours, yours, thine, hers_, and _theirs_ are used when the name of the thing possessed is omitted; as, This rose is _yours_ = This rose is"