How to Use the others in a Sentence

the others

plural noun
  • Does that add a bit of pressure on you and the others?
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • But what felt like freedom to me felt like abandonment to the others.
    — Kelly Martens-Crompvoets, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Can’t one or two of the others on that page be shrunk a little to accommodate it?
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This one also had the most yellow color as compared to the others.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • What Blinken and the others on the panel had to say was sober and sensible.
    — Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Whoever wins that category will be lucky while all the others can hold their heads high.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • George Kelly hit two and Ross Youngs and Dave Bancroft hit the others.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Not too long ago, the different personae considered the others fierce rivals.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • But Foster worked mostly with Cetera and largely excluded the others from the creative process.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Participants alternately clenched their toes (rock), spread them apart (paper) and crossed the big toe over the others (scissors).
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In general partnerships, each partner can be exposed to the actions of the others, which is a risk many founders aren’t comfortable taking.
    — Gary Galstyan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Publix Sharp Cheddar Cheese Testers found this cheese to be more mild tasting than the others, with a subtle sharpness and savory taste.
    — Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 6 May 2026
  • The Gladiator also offers something none of the others do — an open-air driving experience.
    — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • When scientists are investigating how Earth might have received the ingredients for life, one big clue is the ratio of each element to the others.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 17 June 2026
  • This will be the fourth home-and-home series against a power-conference team in his tenure; the others were Arizona, Tennessee and Texas Tech.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • Each one of those people has gotten back to me in a relatively quick amount of time (15 minutes for the MLB broadcaster, and one day or so for the others).
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2026
  • Still, Atom is developing something akin to an architecture in which there’s a storage region, an operations zone, and a collection of backup atoms that can be brought in if one of the others is lost.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • Milbrand recommends using essential oil diffusers strategically to give each room its own personality without clashing with the others.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • Give yourself permission to pursue these various interests without letting anyone swallow the others entirely.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Both McKenna and Stenberg probably project closer to the Bedard production profile (albeit as wingers) than the others, however.
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • So even though the Animated and Reality Competition Program categories have their mainstays, no one show looms over all the others to where the winner is obvious each time.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Angela George There were only 4,800 tickets for Freedom 250 at Mount Rushmore on July 3, but that wasn't a problem for all the others in the Black Hills.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Investigators were also able to find records suggesting Bellido Cosio and the others rented vehicles 14 times for a total of 144 days and drove them more than 65,000 miles around the country during the scheme, according to authorities.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi’s meditative drama, three people in three different eras explore the sentience of flora, each timeline connecting to the others through a gingko tree that’s been growing since 1832 in the botanical gardens adjacent to Marburg University in Germany.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 May 2026

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