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him
1[ him ]
pronoun
- the objective case of he, used as a direct or indirect object:
I'll see him tomorrow. Give him the message.
- Informal. (used instead of the pronoun he in the predicate after the verb to be ):
It's him. It isn't him.
- Informal. (used instead of the pronoun his before a gerund):
We were surprised by him wanting to leave.
noun
- Informal. a male:
Is the new baby a her or a him?
H.I.M.
2abbreviation for
- His Imperial Majesty; Her Imperial Majesty.
HIM
1abbreviation for
- His ( or Her) Imperial Majesty
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Example Sentences
So people want to believe that a victim deserved it, or brought it on him/herself.
And MSNBC (which put out a we-wish-him-well statement) was no longer pleased by Buchanan.
The problem is that Scott is unpopular—awkward, should-we-be-seen-with-him-in-public unpopular.
Timothy Geithner has become America's latest if-only-we-got-rid-of-him-it'd-all-be-better bogeyman.
But what I can see is that Geithner has become America's latest if-only-we-got-rid-of-him-it'd-all-be-better bogeyman.
She came close to him-came round the table till she stood within a few feet of him.
Lor, de house seems so still widout him!cant a fly scratch his ear but it starts a body.
Jim's back was bleeding in several places from the stones that Jenkins had thrown at him., and I was a mass of bruises.
You have seen a mesmerist or biologist, or whatever-you-call-him-ist, communicate with a man under his spell without speech.
Look at him!and then look at yourself in the nearest mirror that reflects so poor and mean a picture of a man!
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