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Example sentences for "only what"

  • We had left all our heavy baggage, to be sent up after us when we should have got into a house, and had brought up only what we should require for the present.

  • The news," he went on, "is only what we had almost expected.

  • Sophy did not know all the history of that night's work, only what Dr.

  • For it befits us surely more than other men to bear us well, and it is only what is looked for from us.

  • The exercise of this mental influence over them, is only what corresponds to leadership in all the affairs of life.

  • It is, of course, only what happens in everything else, unfavorable are likely to have more weight than favorable suggestions, and unless these latter are emphasized their influence becomes swamped.

  • This is only what is to be expected, since the muscularis of their stomach--much more important than its secretory function--has not been accustomed to as much exercise as is now being demanded of it.

  • Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is.

  • What is beneath me floors me; what is on a level with me bores me; only what is above me supports and lifts me above myself.

  • Only what of the past was true will come back to us; that is the one asbestos that survives all fire.

  • It is only what is in the mind that is of any fundamental account.

  • But it is only what is in the mind that is fundamentally important to man, and that will force him to action.

  • The future belonged to Catholicism, and since it is only what is in the mind and the soul that is of any profound and lasting effect, to be Arian, to be heretic, was to fail.

  • For it is only what is in the mind that is of any importance.

  • Indeed, it would be only what might be expected for evidences of early awakening of the broadest culture to be found in Spain.

  • As the empirical self is only what it is known as, namely, appearance, it cannot be the bearer of appearance.

  • Only what remains is dealt with in what is really the most important of the three divisions, the Transcendental Analytic.

  • Only what can be combined in one consciousness can be related to the 'I think.

  • And this other will give him only what he deserves, i.

  • Absolutely, only what he made out of it!

  • Thus Logic and Mathematics alone are absolutely certain sciences; but they really teach us only what we already knew beforehand.

  • The mind is naturally free, not a slave; only what it does willingly, of its own accord, succeeds.

  • He gives his consent; only--" "Only what?

  • Pretty lessons," you will tell me, "which you yourself criticize for teaching only what there is no need of learning!

  • Doubtless he ought to do only what he pleases; but your choice ought to control his wishes.

  • If he never does anything that does not suit him, he will soon do only what he ought to do.

  • While the child is yet without knowledge there is time to prepare everything about him so that his first glance shall discover only what he ought to see.

  • Substitute honest research, original and independent thought, strict truth in the comparison of only what we really know with what is really known by others, and the strong redoubt of ignorance has fallen.

  • They indicate only appearances--only what people *wanted to have seen.

  • Hence, we intend by ``will'' only what is currently and popularly meant.

  • Now if the witnesses only reproduced the actual meaning of what they heard, no harm would be done, but they tell us only what they *suppose to be the meaning, and hence we get a good many mistakes.

  • Perception thus having for its object only what is marked by difference, inference also is in the same case; for its object is only what is distinguished by connexion with things known through perception and other means of knowledge.

  • Only what is prescribed for the day or season is to be sung.

  • His philosophy was very simple; a few lines could comprise it--only what he took a liking to; and he never pretended to have invented it.


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came across; little boys; only answered; only apparent; only daughter; only fancy; only five; only for; only hope; only known; only laughed; only look; only love; only meant; only necessary; only once; only temporary; only that; only the; only then; only thought; only through; only thus; only true; shall devour; wrath shall