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Example sentences for "know whether"

  • Captain Obed was extremely curious to know whether or not his friend had made up his mind to remain in East Wellmouth, but, as the young man himself did not volunteer the information, the captain asked no questions.

  • Caleb Hammond did not seem to know whether to be shocked or not; the Hammond appreciation of a joke generally arrived on a later train.

  • I don't know whether he will be at home again long before dinner.

  • We are singularly rich in orthoptera: I don't know whether--Ah!

  • I don't know whether it is more stupid or ungenerous in you not to see that Mr. Farebrother has left us together on purpose that we might speak freely.

  • I don't know whether to laugh or shudder.

  • Traditions, sanctities, creeds, ecclesiastical establishments, all shaking to know whether my little sixpenny flask of fluid looks muddy or not!

  • If you want to hear my confessions, the next thing--I said--is to know whether I can trust you with them.

  • In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals.

  • But I don't know whether I can in honour discover 'em all.

  • Let me perish, I don't know whether to be splenetic, or airy upon't; the deuce take me if I can tell whether I am glad or sorry that your ladyship has made the discovery.

  • Why, I don't know anything at all, nor I don't know whether there be anything at all in the world, or no.

  • But yet I know, 'tis impossible for me to know whether I could or not; there's no certainty in the things of this life.

  • I don't know whether I fly on ground, or walk in air.

  • She wants to know whether I'm worth powder and shot,' he thought.

  • At the door, he murmured: "I don't know whether my girl will get through, or what she will do after.

  • I really don't know whether I ought to tell you who brought her.

  • I want to know whether he stands to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia?

  • Why, in their eagerness to get at General Taylor, several Democratic members here have desired to know whether, in case of his election, a bankrupt law is to be established.

  • I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union with such a constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make?

  • I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, north as well as south of the Missouri Compromise line?

  • I desire to know whether Lincoln to-day stands, as he did in 1854, in favor of the unconditional repeal of the Fugitive Slave law?

  • Mother says she is just wild to know whether a girl who wears boots and breeches and who knows canyons and the desert and the mountains as you do can be a feminine and lovable person.

  • You want to know whether Mr. Snow is in the same depths of mourning as when our acquaintance first began.

  • I don't know whether I make myself understood.

  • But the fact is, about horses, I don't know whether I shouldn't do better if I never owned an animal at all but those I want for my own use.

  • I don't know whether he approves of the intimacy between him and Lord Silverbridge.

  • I declare I don't know whether it is you or your father that Miss Boncassen most affects," she said.

  • I don't know whether he's back or not, blast him.

  • It's because he's thinking and don't know whether to whistle or not.

  • I don't know whether it is silly, but I don't like to be pitied for the wrong thing.

  • Still, I don't know whether it is not our duty," said Margaret.

  • I am not sufficiently acquainted with such subjects to know whether it is at all remarkable that I almost always dreamed of that period of my life.

  • Sir Leicester has received him there these several evenings past to know whether he has anything to report.

  • I don't know whether to me or to my companion.

  • I sit in Westminster Hall sometimes (in character) from ten to four; and when I go out of Court, I don't know whether I am standing on my wig or my boots.

  • But the clerk was bothered, and didn't know whether it was him, or wasn't - because the reason why?

  • Not until then would he know whether or not his cannon was going to be a success.

  • There was one minute, though, after I got to the place in Preston where I had stored the powder, that I didn't know whether I would succeed or not.

  • Asked Tom, eagerly, anxious to know whether he had missed anything.

  • I don't know whether I'll write or be a doctor.

  • He may build a monument to himself in some institution, but we do not know enough of the world to which he has gone to know whether a tiny monument on this earth is any satisfaction to a person who is free of the universe.

  • Do you happen to know whether he knows Bilbrick, the present Collector?

  • I don't know whether he believes me, but that finishes my case.

  • Well, King came in and wanted to know whether we'd done it with a fret-saw!

  • I don't know whether he'll be much use, though.

  • Don't know whether I've the time," said Perowne.

  • I don't know whether it's the American air; if it is, all I can say is that the American air is very charming.

  • Their old measurements and comparisons desert them; they don't know whether it's all a joke, or whether it's too serious by half.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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