ELSE in a Sentence

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For ELSE, below is one of 332 sentences:
He did not even know whether any one else in the world felt as he did, or whether he was the sole victim of this mournful privilege.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
else
 a.  other than the persons or things mentioned
 ad.  if not, usually preceded by or
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He did not even know whether any one else in the world felt as he did, or whether he was the sole victim of this mournful privilege.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  He forgot what else he had meant to say and pressed her against him so closely that he seemed to feel her warmth in his veins.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  After his father's death it had taken time to get his head above water, and he did not want Andrew Hale, or any one else in Starkfield, to think he was going under again.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  You may forget she's your kin but everybody else'll remember it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  She had taken everything else from him; and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the others.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  The answer seemed to satisfy her, or else she yielded to the power of his voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  Mrs. Hale answered simply: "There was nowhere else for her to go;" and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves than any one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  There hasn't been any fun at any party this spring because the boys can't talk about anything else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Or else engaged in shooting matches.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  He'd be just fool enough to let the patterollers get him and that would give Ma something else to talk about for weeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Scarlett was impressed less than anyone else by his tempers and his roarings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  The Calvert boys have been blabbing again," Gerald said resignedly, "else you'd not be knowing the amount.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  He was never more than politely interested in any of the things that vitally interested every one else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  To this end, Ellen and Mammy bent their efforts, and as Scarlett grew older she became an apt pupil in this subject, even though she learned little else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
16  Friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
17  Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier.
18  A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
19  A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
20  Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else.
21  You may keep the book a further week provided that no one else requires it.
22  No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
23  She, in her pig-headed way, insists that she is right and that everyone else is wrong.
24  I hope what I have written will be of benefit to someone else who may feel the same way.
25  Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
26  Believe in yourself when no one else does.
27  Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
28  Don't give up,just be you,cause life's too short to be anybody else.
29  To place something else at the center may arouse fears that superstition and non-scientific ideas will attack an undefended citadel of science.
30  Thankfully, he sank back into his comfortable chair; someone else would do the job.