hither
Example Sentences
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“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024
When Santos is sworn in on Capitol Hill next week, it will send a Bat-signal across the land: Come hither, crooks and swindlers, con artists and hustlers all.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2022
“Masks blow hither and thither,” she added, “and finally come to rest when they hit a patch of water,” grass or sidewalk, where they too often remain.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2021
Grey, feathery ashes scurried hither and thither at his breath but no spark shone among them The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Vocabulary lists containing hither
Much Ado About Nothing
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"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" by Walt Whitman
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Twelfth Night
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