there's
American-
contraction of there is:
There's the hotel we were looking for.
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contraction of there has: There's been entirely too much said on the subject.
Usage
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Example Sentences
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But a recent documentary by filmmaker James Theres, “SixTripleEight,” helped raise the battalion’s profile.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022
"Theres a number of members who have been there 30, 40, 50 years," Nani says.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 19, 2020
The double-stranded story begins in Greece in 1984, with the prospect of European unification on the horizon and a couple — Theres and Kenneth — navigating what seems to be the end of their relationship.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2017
Theres like three things on the menu, you either want a burger or a tuna sandwich or pie.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2016
Theres a new radio transmitter in Brandenburg called the Deutschlandsender 3 my brother says it is three hundred thirty-something meters tall the second-tallest man-made construction in the world.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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