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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.
- It has not been approved for use in this country. Therefore, you cannot buy it here.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Wilbur's food is your food; therefore Wilbur's destiny and your destiny are closely linked.E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
- 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
- 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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