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Example sentences for "but why"

But why in the world didn't you help Bertran instead of letting him be killed?

It was all the same before, of course; but why was it I didn't notice it before?

But why is it his ears stick out so strangely?

But why was it you didn't come to dinner?

If you can persuade Mamma," she said; "but why should we change what is already settled?

I beg your pardon: but why isn't the matter closed?

He could recall himself, of course, by a word or a movement--but why?

Perhaps it wasn't Emerson; but why shouldn't I read Emerson?

But why is this come to us now, to-day, to-night?

But why don't you deny him, my dear Lizzy?

But why don't you go and see for yourself?

But why should we not make dams at once; and save the water?

But why do not people stop such a horrible loss of life?

That the prisoners in it had been set free; that-- But why speak of what too many here recollect but too well?

Such cases, doubtless, are far less common than they were fifty years ago: but why?

But why do you never let anyone catch a glimpse of her?

But why should he be a prisoner of state in France, while his elder brother Richard was permitted to live there quite openly?

I excuse your anxiety, I understand your trouble, but why appeal to me?

But why should we thus sadden one another's hearts?

But why, it may be asked, are certain forms treated as the mimicked and others as the mimickers?

But why, on the theory of creation, they should not have been created there, it would be very difficult to explain.

But why cannot Mr. Thorpe drive one of his other sisters?

I can allow for his wishing Catherine away, when he recollected this engagement," said Sarah, "but why not do it civilly?

But why should he speak to her of such things?

But why shouldn't I speak to you of this matter without annoying you or embarrassing myself?

But why don't you ask Madame Merle about these people?

But why couldn't he look you in the face; or, if he did, why did he seem about to eat you?

I cannot show you what is wrong, there is nothing wrong--but why do you paint?

If it's disagreeable to her--but why should it be?

But why could he not do all that his father could have done?

But why should he take the scandal on himself with his whole career as a pillar of the law at stake?

But why didn't you prohibit once for all the whole thing?

But why is one face beautiful and another not?

But why had he not told her she was mistaken?

But why should I educate you in abominable knowledge?

But why--'I feel specially this summer I should like to be near you'?

But why, then, those arms and the regalia of a Tharkian chieftain?

I can readily perceive that you are not of the Barsoom of today; you are like us, yet different--but why should I trouble my poor head with such a problem, when my heart tells me that I believe because I wish to believe!

There also came to my nostrils a faintly pungent odor, and I could only assume that I had been overcome by some poisonous gas, but why I should retain my mental faculties and yet be unable to move I could not fathom.

A cloud, I admit, may have crossed the sun; but why hysterics?

It is there, senora," he said finally, pointing to the shore lined with twinkling lights.

Her golden hair, massed closely about her ears and upon her forehead, shimmered in the bright sun dazzlingly; her eyes sparkled; her little white teeth gleamed in a happy, joyous smile.

Janvour took me to the railroad station, and even offered to accompany me to Cherbourg; but I refused to tear him away from his little paradise.

The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but why" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.

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