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

What followed were several centuries of new offices and swarm upon swarm of bureaucrats come hither.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2022

Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë