The word “we” is a pronoun used by a speaker to refer to themselves and one or more others collectively. Writers use it to convey shared experiences, group identity, or collective action. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “we” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for We
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
Powell, who was a mining engineer by education, stated that we had uncovered over a million dollars worth of ore in a trifle over three months.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 143 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
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
He was, when others were with him, the same genial, happy fellow we had known of old, but when he thought himself alone I have seen him sit for hours gazing off into space, his face set in a look of wistful longing and hopeless misery; and at night he would sit thus looking up into the heavens, at what I did not know until I read his manuscript years afterward.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
71 words, 363 characters
Since we had entered the territory we had not seen a hostile Indian, and we had, therefore, become careless in the extreme, and were wont to ridicule the stories we had heard of the great numbers of these vicious marauders that were supposed to haunt the trails, taking their toll in lives and torture of every white party which fell into their merciless clutches.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 364 characters
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