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Example sentences for "for whom"

  • Edmond talked to me a great deal about the old man for whom he had the deepest love.

  • When you say invisible," interrupted Albert, "it is only to keep up the mystery; for whom do you take the blue domino at the window with the white curtains?

  • But fortunately this was not the case, and the governor left him, convinced that the poor madman, for whom in his heart he felt a kind of affection, was only troubled with a slight indisposition.

  • Were these people my parents, for whom I was an abominable burden, a terror, an infamous shame; for whom my birth was a calamity and my life a threat of disgrace?

  • For whom is destined this sublime spectacle, this abundance of poetry cast from heaven to earth?

  • Why should this good, simple, religious man have killed little children, and the very children whom he seemed to love the most, whom he spoiled and stuffed with sweet things, for whom he spent half his salary in buying toys and bonbons?

  • I was sure that he for whom it was provided was not one to pass it over in benevolent silence.

  • The honest backwoodsman, perfectly ignorant of the abuses that had led to the present position of things, regarded the rebels as a set of monsters, for whom no punishment was too severe, and obeyed the call to arms with enthusiasm.

  • And whoso, together with God, shall call on another god, for whom he hath no proof, shall surely have to give account to his Lord.

  • Moreover we have decked the lowest heaven with lights, and have placed them there to be hurled at the Satans, for whom we have prepared the torment of the flaming fire.

  • Benign is God towards his servants: for whom He will doth He provide: and He is the Strong, the Mighty.

  • His chief favorites were Roscius the comedian, Sorex the arch mime, and Metrobius the player, for whom, though past his prime, he still professed a passionate fondness.

  • And besides, he had made a compact with Edith, for whom he had something more than family affection, and he watched Jack's efforts to adjust himself to the new life with sympathy.

  • This is the cause of my affliction, on your account, and his, for whom I want confidence to implore your pardon.

  • I was incensed at this usage, but afraid of resenting it, because I happened to be in a strange place, and perceived the person who spoke to me was a brawny fellow, for whom I thought myself by no means a match.

  • Then Christ in life and death is concluded by the Father to live and die as a common or public person, representing all in this life and death, for whom he undertook thus to live, and thus to die.

  • I have reason to believe it, for whom did I ever love save the Queen?

  • Indeed, he was well pleased now that he had prevented me from going to the King my husband, for whom he had conceived the greatest animosity.

  • He was now destined to bear the remains of her, dead, for whom he had long been dying, and was now as near dying for her loss as he had before been for her love.

  • Guise, for whom he ordered strict search to be made.

  • So saying, he went up to Alaeddin and kissed him and said, "For whom do I intend these my labours?

  • Him, with Her, with the Saints, for whom I fight!

  • His name was Magister Kochel and he lodged with the king's almoner, for whom he was acting as clerk.

  • Sword in hand he would burst the old man's door, and the only booty he asked for himself should be Ruth, for whom he longed, who in spite of everything loved him, who had belonged to him from her childhood.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    extensively grown; for granted; for his; for several; for that; for they; for they know not what they; for which; for you; foraging expedition; foreign born; foreign stamps; foreign tongue; forget the; form and; formed from; former days; former journey; former note; former period; former visit; fortnight later; forty dollars; forty hours; forty year; upper house