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

The humor is sporadic, hinging mostly on slapstick-style depictions of body parts being flung hither and thither.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023

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

Perhaps that was why her lord hither had always cherished her best of all his children.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin