each other
each the other; one another (used as a compound reciprocal pronoun): to strike at each other; to hold each other's hands; to love each other.
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Origin of each other
1usage note For each other
The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
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How to use each other in a sentence
Masks were not part of the attire, or conversation, but we gave each other plenty of space.
In Big Sky country, a pandemic-era fly-fishing getaway | Carl Fincke | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostAccording to Azevedo’s appeal, each other candidate had a decade less experience in government.
She Noticed $200 Million Missing, Then She Was Fired | by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation | December 24, 2020 | ProPublicaSo they run into each other years later and it’s kind of the feeling of you left me hanging.
Kyla Pratt’s Real Life Is As Romantic As The Lifetime Movie She Stars In | cmurray | December 4, 2020 | Essence.comOver time, we watch as he learns the various ways in which human beings can do each other harm.
‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past | Bill Sheehan | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostConnie and I will text throughout the day and send each other photos of our food as it comes out of the oven.
I will be lonely on Thanksgiving. But that will not stop me from celebrating. | Kellie B. Gormly | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post
We would talk off and on, just checking-up-on-each-other kind of thing.
Lennay Marie Kekua and Manti Te’o: A Scandal Explained | Andrew Carter | January 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe clung to each other-was it to pass the time, or was it in despair?
Such is the case with our own language: each-other, one-another.
Opuscula | Robert Gordon LathamThe same enthusiasm for art, the same studies and the same inclinations bound us yet closer to each-other.
Louis Spohr's Autobiography | Louis SpohrThe walls consist of unhewn beams laid upon each-other, the crevices being filled up with moss.
Louis Spohr's Autobiography | Louis SpohrThey reached the hall, where Siegfried and Gutrune stood to welcome them, and the men hailed each other-388- as brother.
Operas Every Child Should Know | Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
British Dictionary definitions for each other
used when the action, attribution, etc, is reciprocal: furious with each other
usage For each other
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Other Idioms and Phrases with each other
Also, one another. Each one the other, one the other, as in The boys like each other, or The birds were fighting one another over the crumbs. Both of these phrases indicate a reciprocal relationship or action between the subjects preceding (the boys, the birds). Formerly, many authorities held that each other should be confined to a relationship between two subjects only and one another used when there are more than two. Today most do not subscribe to this distinction, which was never strictly observed anyway. [Late 1300s] Also see at each other's throats.
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