How to Use or so in a Sentence

or so

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• An hour or so later, the Islands of the Sun and the Moon appeared.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• There was a fee of twenty dollars; the process should take a week or so.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• This should be a week in which Stevenson climbs 100 or so more yards up that list.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Curl toes and brace your deep core to lift knees to hover off ground just an inch or so.
  — Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• The season for the very best asparagus doesn’t last long, just a month or so.
  — Kathleen Purvis, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The number of Christians in the U.S. has also declined sharply over the past decade or so.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• The long-term future extends, at most, six weeks or so.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Do apply up to five inches or so of mulch on top of the planting hole.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The story picks up a year or so later, with the Slough House staff still moldering.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Chen is one of a dozen or so witnesses that may be called by the plaintiff.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• More than two dozen upscale omakase bars have sprung up from downtown to the South Bay over the past decade or so.
  — Claire Wang, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
• In the past year or so, awareness among both customers and traders has increased.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
• When a recipe simply hits all the right notes, any thought of altering it grinds to a halt for a good decade or so.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• In the early days of the regime, half a dozen or so major consumer groups were willing to enter the fray.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• In the case of Mount Oglethorpe, eliminating the first three dozen or so miles made sense.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• The location will likely open in six months or so, Skizas said.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• That’s what happened to 400 or so of their colleagues on Thursday.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2024
• It's only been in the past decade or so that he's opened up to them, which led them to urge his pursuit of a Purple Heart.
  — Steve Karnowski, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
• Cook until the pork is tender and falling off the bone, about 3 hours, turning the pork in the stock every hour or so.
  — Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2024
• Renting near the beach has never looked so good — or so costly.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
• With 12 minutes left — two hours or so since James threw the powder into the air — the Lakers were at that point again.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2024
• People still love to hate on the Cowboys but this is as good of a roster as Dallas has had in the last 10 or so years.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• On smaller burns of a half-acre or so, the GOA may be quickly identified.
  — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• Fast forward 30 years or so, and Gn is one of the few indies who have succeeded on his own terms.
  — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
• In videos, the aircraft skims along at 20 feet or so above the ground, banking around tree branches like a jet-ski skimming waves.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• Some spots could see a half-inch or so, but lower and higher amounts are certainly in play.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• An hour or so later, David Shafer, the chairman of the state’s Republican Party, stepped out of the room and into the hall.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• The aspects of the business that aren’t continuing are expected to be wound down in the next two months or so.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• The Libra eclipse on the 14th is the first in a series that will shake up the trajectory of your professional life over the next year or so.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
• But within 20 years or so, the lease would be up and anything built on that land would revert to the Astor Family.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024