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

Here are real-life examples of using "with": You're so impatient with me. I think my living with you has influenced your way of living.

With Meaning

/wɪð/

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

Definition

prepAgainst.

prepIn the company of; alongside, close to; near to.

Sentence Examples

You're so impatient with me.

I think my living with you has influenced your way of living.

People with the disease may lose their ability to communicate.

CEFR Practice Quiz

She decided to travel to the city ____ her best childhood friend.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Would you like to come ____ us to the cinema this evening to see the new movie that everyone loves today?

Word Origin & History

From Middle English with, from Old English wiþ (“against, opposite, toward, with”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþi, a shortened form of Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”). In Middle English, the word shifted to denote association rather than opposition, displacing Middle English mid (“with”), from Old English mid (“with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi; an earlier model of this meaning shift exists in cognate Old Norse við; elsewhere, the converse meaning shift is exemplified by Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩺𐩬 (byn, “between, amid”) spawning Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “against”) and even likewise frequent reverse meaning 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “from”). The adverb sense is probably a semantic loan from various other Germanic languages, such as German mit, Norwegian med, and Swedish med.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Many hatchets, knives, & pieces of iron, & brass, we see, which they reported to have from the Sasquesahanocks a mighty people, and mortal enemies with the Massawomecks." — 1621, John Smith, The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia:

"No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

"With that she told me that though she spake of her father, whom she named Chremes, she would hide no truth from me: […]" — 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia:

"With this he pointed to his face, and show'd His hand and all his habit smear'd with blood." — 1697, Virgil, “Aeneid”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil:

"See where, on earth, the flowery glories lie, With her they flourish'd, and with her they die." — 1861, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne”, in The Rev. George Gilfillan, editor, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope:

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