The word “our” is a possessive pronoun used to show that something belongs to or is associated with the speaker and one or more others. Writers use it to express belonging, relationships, and shared identity. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “our” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Our
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
It was agreed that I was to hold down our claim against the remote possibility of its being jumped by some wandering prospector.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23 words, 128 characters
We were extremely fortunate, for late in the winter of 1865, after many hardships and privations, we located the most remarkable gold-bearing quartz vein that our wildest dreams had ever pictured.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
31 words, 196 characters
As our equipment was crude in the extreme we decided that one of us must return to civilization, purchase the necessary machinery and return with a sufficient force of men properly to work the mine.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
35 words, 198 characters
On March 3, 1866, Powell and I packed his provisions on two of our burros, and bidding me goodbye he mounted his horse, and started down the mountainside toward the valley, across which led the first stage of his journey.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
40 words, 221 characters
Possibly the suggestions which I gained upon Mars, and the knowledge which I can set down in this chronicle, will aid in an earlier understanding of the mysteries of our sister planet; mysteries to you, but no longer mysteries to me.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 words, 233 characters
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