Phrase info

of ours

Meaning

of ours

Belonging to us.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor. John Climacus

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. Thomas De Quincey

Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Francis Bacon

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. Iris Murdoch

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. Theodore Roosevelt

On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art. André Malraux

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