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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
those
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
something along those lines
▪ They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines.
those same people
▪ It is those same people who voted for the Democrats who now complain about their policies.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
along these/those lines
▪ Democritus drew up a map along these lines.
▪ Different proposals along these lines have already been introduced by members of Congress from both parties.
▪ Frankly, I had nothing to share along those lines.
▪ I was getting a lot of work along these lines in the theater.
▪ In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
▪ It would be quite wrong to claim that it gave us orders along those lines.
▪ Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines.
▪ The parties have made promises along these lines.
it's (just) one of those days
▪ "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
sth is just one of those things
those who
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Those

Those \Those\, pron. [OE. [thorn]os, [thorn]as, AS. [eth][=a]s, nom. and acc. pl. of [eth][=e]s this. See This, and cf. These.] The that. See That.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
those

c.1300, Midlands and southern variant of Old English þas, nominative and accusative plural of þes, þeos "this" (see this). A collateral form of these, now used as the plural of that.

Wiktionary
those

det. (that English) pron. (that English)

Wikipedia
Those

Those may refer to:

  • those, plural English distal demonstrative, (the plural of the word that)
  • Those, Nepal

Usage examples of "those".

It arises from the depths of the mind, those tectonic impacts when buried axioms clash and thrust new mountain ranges up to poke holes in the mind’s atmosphere, to change climate into stormy chaos, star-crowned.

But Raki was bigger, older, and early skilled in those torments that give older boys dominance in any gang.

But in the priests’ hands, she had been nothing much to see—except those eyes.

Gird is the protector of those who cannot protect themselves, and as his followers we are bound to aid the helpless.

He knows these people, he knows the selected locality, and he trusts that he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

It seemed a prompt good way of weeding out people that had got stalled, and a plenty good enough way for those others.

I was going to drown some of the others, but I gave up the idea, partly because I believed that if I kept that up it would arouse attention, and perhaps sympathy with those people, and partly because it was not a large well and would not hold any more anyway.

Nothing more fiendish and irreconcilable than those shrieking and blaspheming colors could have been contrived.

I am no judge of music, and I don't claim it, but in my opinion nobody can make those two songs go together right.

Couldn't she see the blind heat of desire in those wonderful eyes of his?

I panicked, and some of those thousand times I saw myself walking away.

To those who looked up at that precise moment - and there were many who hap­pened to look up - it was as though a new star had momentarily blossomed in blue-white incandescence.

Little Tommy Falkner had always been curious about the planets, about space, the original space bug himself at a time when such things were mysteries to the general public, but it had given him a crawly feeling and a week of night­mares to think about those 1947 saucers.

If Vorneen chose to look slightly too hand­some, if Glair had erred in the direction of voluptuousness, if Mirtin wished to be self-effacingly unglamorous, those all were permissible options.

In his astronaut days he had been careful not to let his weight get above 165, but those days were long gone, and now he had fleshed out to the full capacity of his frame and then some.