Sample sentences for THEREFORE

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for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)

Kim is taller than Ashley. Ashley is taller than Anna. Therefore, Kim is taller than Anna.

therefore = for that reason

We reduced locations where mosquito eggs can mature and therefore reduced the number of mosquitoes.

therefore = for that reason

It has not been approved for use in this country. Therefore, you cannot buy it here.

therefore = for that reason

Zuckerman thinks Wilbur is an unusual pig, and therefore he won't want to kill him and eat him.
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web

therefore = for that reason

He still maintained, however, that Atticus hadn't said we couldn't, therefore we could; and if Atticus ever said we couldn't, Jem had thought of a way around it: he would simply change the names of the characters and then we couldn't be accused of playing anything.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

therefore = for that reason

And anyway, for the people, there was another reason to leave the wood to itself: it belonged to the Fosters, the owners of the touch-me-not cottage, and was therefore private property in spite of the fact that it lay outside the fence and was perfectly accessible.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

therefore = for that reason

Nobody except squirrels can get walnuts whole out of walnut shells every time. ... Therefore I have to have squirrels to do the job.
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

therefore = for that reason

Wilbur's food is your food; therefore Wilbur's destiny and your destiny are closely linked.
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web

therefore = for that reason

She has only a short time to live. She cannot accompany us home, because of her condition. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that I take her egg sac with me.
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web

therefore = for those reasons

I watch these girls with interest; they are girls who did not get work positions and therefore will float around wherever they are needed for a time.
Ally Condie -- Matched
My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
He had confided in Neeley that he, McGarrity, was a man who had his ear to the ground and was therefore in a position to hear prohibition coming.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Therefore go for a favor.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
I needed, therefore, to question an adult who might know everything, and between lightning and chickens, I could slip in a question on kittens.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
I was young, but not too young to realize that it was a forbidden object in the Abnegation faction, a useless and therefore a self-indulgent one.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
But that would be a small see, and therefore would not work for the purposes of humor.
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
Therefore put money in thy purse.
Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
If, therefore, you wish to construe what my silence "betokened," you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.
Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
Therefore, under us and under the High King, you shall be King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Emperor of the Lone Islands.
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

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