The word “him” is an object pronoun referring to a male person or animal previously mentioned. Writers use it to indicate the receiver of an action or emotion. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “him” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Him
We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
13 words, 70 characters
When the war broke out he left us, nor did I see him again for some fifteen or sixteen years.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
20 words, 93 characters
I found the watchman who had discovered him, together with the local police chief and several townspeople, assembled in his little study.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
22 words, 138 characters
As Powell was familiar with the country, as well as with the mechanical requirements of mining we determined that it would be best for him to make the trip.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
29 words, 156 characters
Several months after I had returned home from my last visit, the first of March, 1886, I think, I received a telegram from him asking me to come to him at once.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
32 words, 160 characters
I have often heard my father caution him against his wild recklessness, but he would only laugh, and say that the tumble that killed him would be from the back of a horse yet unfoaled.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
35 words, 184 characters
After I had retired for the night I have seen him from my window standing in the moonlight on the brink of the bluff overlooking the Hudson with his arms stretched out to the heavens as though in appeal.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
39 words, 204 characters
There was surely a saloon on the corner—perhaps on all four corners, and some in the middle of the block as well; and each one stretched out a hand to him—each one had a personality of its own, allurements unlike any other.
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
44 words, 225 characters
He remained with us for about a year and then went to New York, where he purchased a little place on the Hudson, where I visited him once a year on the occasions of my trips to the New York market—my father and I owning and operating a string of general stores throughout Virginia at that time.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
58 words, 296 characters
It lay, he said, stretched full length in the snow with the arms outstretched above the head toward the edge of the bluff, and when he showed me the spot it flashed upon me that it was the identical one where I had seen him on those other nights, with his arms raised in supplication to the skies.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
58 words, 297 characters
He told me at this time that if anything should happen to him he wished me to take charge of his estate, and he gave me a key to a compartment in the safe which stood in his study, telling me I would find his will there and some personal instructions which he had me pledge myself to carry out with absolute fidelity.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
63 words, 317 characters
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