I don't know why, because Washington's dead at this time of the year.
I don't object to wading through a swarm of bees to get a little honey for a friend, but I think I'm entitled to know why he wants it.
Yours become you very well," said Miss Duncan, "although I don't know why.
A moment afterwards, I don't know why, he spoke to me of his sister who died at Martinique.
I had fancied, I don't know why, that she was a grown-up young lady.
This answer, I don't know why, seemed to affect him deeply.
And I, too, didn’t know why I had come into the world any more than she does.
Then, I don’t know why, something moved me to make him a deep curtsy as he backed out of the room, leaving me suddenly impressed, not only with him but with myself too.
We know the German government wants that ivory, and we know why.
Nobody guards the water-front; I don't know why, unless it is that the gate on that side is kept locked almost always and the wall runs along the water's edge.
I don't know why, but I certainly did not expect to hear English.
Then something writhed and cried within, as a tortured beast cries, at loss to know why it is being tortured.
But in the second year one gives it up; I don't know why--it's awfully interesting.
He was so wonderfully kind to me; I don't know why.
I may have to use subterfuge and come on you for invitations--if so, you'll know why!
I don't know why, I always fancied that they could only speak Magyar; but that is not so at all, though they always speak it at home when they are alone.
I don't know why he should tear her but certainly he might have crushed her.
I don't know why, but in the history lesson to-day it all came into my head once more what Dora had said of Father.
She is the daughter of a bank manager in Hamburg; he shot himself, I don't know why.
I don't know why we shouldn't be born older in each generation than people were in the last.
And I don't know why WE should set any example to our neighbors.
The Mormon Hill "Quartz Crusher" relieved this simple directness with more fancy: "We don't know why Messrs.
Teddy isn't used to climbing up a wall, but he'll make it or know why.
Want to know why it ain't going to do you any good to drop that right hand any closeter to your hip pocket?
Want to know why, Mr. Millionaire Dunke, what used to be my old pal?
I don't know why he should have been aggrieved, but he seemed to be.
I believe this is the very first, say, realistic, story I heard in my life; but all the same I don't know why I should have been so frightfully impressed.
I don't know why I smiled except that it seemed absolutely impossible to mention Almayer's name without a smile of a sort.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know why" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
