1. without
I'm sad without you.
She did without necessities to pay for her daughter's lessons.
For the crime of first degree murder, this court hereby sentences you to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
I can go months without an alcoholic drink, but not even one hour without a cigarette.
If you work too long without a rest, it begins to tell on you.
You're playing with fire if you insist on riding your motorcycle without a helmet on.
The front wheel plays an important role in two-wheeled vehicles moving without falling over.
You will never get far without the co-operation, confidence and comradeship of other men and women.
The rain stopped just long enough for me to dash into the cafe without getting wet.
It is needless to say that an experienced person will do better than someone without experience.
It is difficult to overcome this shortcoming without drastically changing the whole system.
If you spend too much time in the sun without putting on sunscreen, you are likely to get a sunburn.
I think it's highly unlikely that Tom was not aware that he wouldn't be allowed to enter the museum without his parents.
Charles Moore created Forth in an attempt to increase programmer productivity without sacrificing machine efficiency.
An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive.
2. either
I don't, either.
A black panther can be a jaguar or leopard, but in either case it has a gene that causes it to produce more melanin than other specimens.
It is a toss-up whether to drink sake or whiskey; too much of either results equally in drunken revelry.
In either case, the division is real and useful; but it can also be misleading.
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
Is this kid autistic or does he have ADHD? His behavior is hard to characterize either way.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Everybody in that company is either a vice-president or a senior vice-president; they're all chiefs and no Indians.
No, no! That isn't the smiling face we are looking for. It was a 'smirk' either that or a 'sneer'.
With such a vivid imagination he'll become either a world-famous novelist or a lunatic.
With a high, closed collar, figure-hugging cut, and large slits at either side of a straight skirt, the qipao is unique in its ability to communicate both modesty and sensuousness.
Depending on which side it’s inserted, it will either point towards the back, detecting the ear, or point towards the front.
As a member of the society they have ample reason not to say no. But they have equally compelling reasons not to say yes, either
3. thus
Thus he succeeded.
At an Indian wedding at the Phillipine islands the bride retired from the company in order to go down to the river to wash her feet. As she was thus employed an alligator seized her.
The more cheese, the more holes. The more holes, the less cheese. Thus: The more cheese, the less cheese.
The families of the factory workers need schools, hospitals, and stores, so more people come to live in the area to provide these services, and thus a city grows.
There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Spirits are to be found all over the world. This school was built upon the site of a shrine and thus there is a particular tendency for them to gather.
Russia is thus making it very clear just how little it values human rights. / The idea behind IFRS thus deserves to be supported by the European Parliament.
We were young and thus optimistic. The price of electricity is going up, thus everything else will also get more expensive.
Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.
When it sets off the bell rings, "ding-ding". Thus 'ding-ding-train'.
A renowned tactician, Christopher Columbus once downed an entire pirate fleet by stealing all of their fruits and vegetables, thus giving them scurvy.
In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.