they'll

[ theyl ]

/ ðeɪl /

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contraction of they will.

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usage note for they'll

See contraction.

Words nearby they'll

The worm turns, wrong end of the stick, the, they, They also serve who only stand and wait, they'd, they'll, they're, they've, THG, thi-, thiabendazole

How to use they'll in a sentence

After that, they agreed that LL would warn Foxx before striking him again.
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This version, one of the best yet, included hits from LL Cool J, Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, Outkast, Drake, Kanye West, and more.
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“[A]ll the ideas concepts recommendations were Marks so he should simply own it outright,” she tweeted at the time.
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Just before summer began, Brad Paisley and LL Cool J arrived to cure racism.
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Joseph Towers died; a printer, bookseller, and afterwards a preacher with the title of LL.
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He remarked, very acutely, that Chaucer translates the F. bouton by the word knoppe; see ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
But the names, even in the F. text, are not exactly the same as in a former passage; see ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
I take iowell (with a bar through the ll) to be the usual (Northern) contraction for Iowellis, jewels; F. text, joiau, pl.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
As these lines are not in the original, the writer may have taken them from Chaucer's Hous of Fame, ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer

British Dictionary definitions for they'll

they'll

/ (ðeɪl) /

contraction of

they will or they shall

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