Definition of 'they're'
they're in American English
(ðɛər, unstressed ðər)
contraction of
they are
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Examples of 'they're' in a sentence
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I lie there and I listen to all four of them come into the living room, flop down,
and say with one voice they're all going to die.
They're just trying to fob people off.
If they're for fodder, our animals will have fodder.
He says we only like pandas because they're cuddly.
What if they're actually the plastic bags of the beauty industry?
They're making a survey of the site, then they're sealing it and the shopping mall
goes ahead on top of it.
Of course, that could be down to the cable they're installing in the road outside.
There's a spotter plane overhead and a guide in the water, who raises his arm to signal
which way they're moving.
If any of them misbehave, they're in the doghouse.
And they're going to do engineering and the building trades, bricklaying and all that.
Example sentences from Collins dictionaries
They're quids in, thanks to the media attention.
They're increasing production.
They're pleased to be going home.
They're advertising their new smartphone.
They're down on the ground floor.
They're still not speaking.
They're taking it with the apathetic calm which many mistake for British phlegm.
Package holidays are not always all they're cracked up to be.
they're out in the garden
that's them, they're coming now
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