yonder

Example Sentences

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Up yonder in the Big Apple, Andrew Cuomo is still pursuing an independent campaign for mayor against Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2025

An absent father—from a city yonder, past state lines Temple had never crossed—and no relatives on his mother’s side ensured that he got no apprenticeships.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023

“Till the rains begin. Then this old river will come down out of the mountains yonder and carry you and this bridge — and a dozen bridges with it — to hell and gone.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

That’s where you’ll always find me, way back yonder, where the crawdads sing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2022

“Doodle, get that shovel over yonder, hear, and hep me dig a hole.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns