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HERE AND THERE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In or to various places; first this place and then that

Example:

we drove here and there in the darkness

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 Context examples: 

She was introduced here and there by her uncle, and forced to be spoken to, and to curtsey, and speak again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The side of the Mariposa rushed past him like a dark wall, broken here and there by lighted ports.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Instead, Mars has umbrella-shaped magnetic fields that sprout out of the ground like mushrooms, here and there, but mainly in the southern hemisphere.

(Auroras on Mars, NASA)

I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In his alarm and flurry, he threw the wood here and there about the floor, called and searched, but no cook was to be found.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thickets of green nutmeg-trees were dotted here and there with the red columns and the broad shadow of the pines; and the first mingled their spice with the aroma of the others.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)