hither

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times

Years ago, so they say, if a woman plopped a basil plant on her windowsill, it was a signal for her lover to come hither, the herbal precursor to texting "you up?"

From Salon

With a dance caller in one place, a pair of musicians in another and dancers scattered hither and yon, it could be an arrhythmic jumble.

From Washington Post

“We can’t just have everyone rolling around, parking and sleeping hither and yon,” she writes, imagining the voice behind this dismissal of houses with chassis.

From New York Times

These snowballs are easily dislodged by passing stars and knocked hither and fro — many inward toward their mother star and its planets, but others outward across the galaxy.

From New York Times