or else

Example Sentences

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His statement came ahead of a Friday deadline for the company to get on board with the Pentagon’s demands or else face some pretty dire consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We have to protect it or else we lose the art form.”

From Los Angeles Times

One win must become two or else the significance of what happened at Murrayfield goes away like so many of the other victories over England.

From BBC

Still more people have been surveilled and captured in DHS databases, with federal agents in some cases holding cellphones inches from their faces to scan their features, or else taking pictures of their license plates.

From Salon

Chase began to think they were walking backward instead of forward, or else that the GPS was wrong.

From Literature