How to Use pronoun in a Sentence

pronoun

noun
  • Skip ahead What are your pronouns?
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Dean Cain, your pronouns are has/been.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Dean Cain, your pronouns are has/been.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Dean Cain, your pronouns are has/been.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • And then also my pronouns are big for me.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
  • And the sea slugs debate the best pronouns to use.
    — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2025
  • No one hides or switches up the pronouns in love songs any more.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • And no one struggles with pronouns!
    — Sarah Neilson, Them., 17 Nov. 2025
  • The pronoun that matters is ‘we’.
    — Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Fowler has opinions about pronouns, too.
    — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • If a pronoun can be replaced by he or she, the correct word is who.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The use of they/them as a singular pronoun has been around for a while.
    — Aaron Kwittken, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • There’s always the fight for the correct pronouns and names to be used.
    — Alex Berg /, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Schools are churning out children who say their pronouns but can’t read them.
    — Nikki Haley, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • That’s three first-person pronouns in one sentence.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Nasdaq will help boards find directors with the right skin tone or pronoun.
    — Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Please share your full name and pronouns for credit and caption info.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The struggle for neutral pronouns reared at other times as well.
    — Leanne Italie, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • Dwyer also referred to Alexa with they/them pronouns.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The job of a relative pronoun is to head up a clause that modifies a noun.
    — June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 8 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • So in kindergarten, Smith’s child became a boy, with short hair, male pronouns and a new name.
    — Washington Post, 23 May 2017
  • And then what happens to the neutral pronoun when adjectives need to be used?
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Saldaña is not the first person to say their Oscar goes by they/them pronouns.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 11 June 2025
  • Maybe one day the old pronoun whom will kick the grammatical bucket.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There have been lawsuits filed in other states on the use of transgender pronouns and rights in schools.
    — CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Kestrel has since told a couple of friends, and a few have started using their preferred pronouns.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024

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