HERE AND THERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does here and there mean? 

• HERE AND THERE (adverb)
  The adverb HERE AND THERE has 1 sense:

1. in or to various places; first this place and then that

  Familiarity information: HERE AND THERE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERE AND THERE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In or to various places; first this place and then that

Context example:

we drove here and there in the darkness

 Context examples 

Here and there one hears a question.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour, with here and there some lights twinkling through it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Here and there among the moving throng of dark jerkins and of white surcoats were scattered dashes of scarlet and blue, the whimples or shawls of the women.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there Buck met Southland dogs, but in the main they were the wild wolf husky breed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There is no need of going into an extended recital of our suffering in the small boat during the many days we were driven and drifted, here and there, willy-nilly, across the ocean.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Far away stretched a line of houses, with a light here and there in the upper windows.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the side of the box was its cover, pierced with holes here and there.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains, the impetuous Arve, and cottages every here and there peeping forth from among the trees formed a scene of singular beauty.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I admire to do it, and you'd be a regular little beauty with a touch here and there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)