How do you use the word "those" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "those" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "those": Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. The only useful answers are those that raise new questions.

Those Meaning

/ðəʊz/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

detplural of that

Sentence Examples

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

The only useful answers are those that raise new questions.

Those responsible for this crime will be severely punished.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The manager called all the employees who had worked overtime; ____ were given extra pay.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Please bring me ____ blue folders from the cabinet in the corner so that I can finish organizing the files today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English thos (“those”), alteration of tho pl (“the; those”), equivalent to tho (“the; those”) + -s (plural ending), partly by analogy with thes (“these”), whose final -s is original and not a plural ending. More at tho.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:

"When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts." — 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

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