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Example sentences for "show what"

  • To show what becomes of the water taken from the soil by roots.

  • To show what becomes of the water taken from the soil by roots 40 22.

  • A plow stopped in the furrow, to show what it does to the roots of plants when used for after-cultivation.

  • A plow stopped in the furrow, to show what it does to the roots of plants when used for after-cultivation 18 11.

  • The date of this law, as well as the date of most of the laws composing the several slave codes, show what credit is to be given to the assertion.

  • We do not produce the extracts which make up these pages to show what is the meaning of the clauses above cited.

  • I shall only mention one thing, to show what we have to combat with.

  • Does it show what proportion of the payment to the knitter is made in cash?

  • Now, I would wish to show what amount of cash I have paid since I began to settle this year.

  • In turn Joe and his fellow players went to Philadelphia, New York and Boston, eventually playing all around the circuit, but, as yet, the young pitcher had had no real chance to show what he could do.

  • The Reds were at bat, and Joe, vainly wishing that he had had a chance to show what he could do, pulled his sweater more closely about him, for the day was growing cool.

  • I wonder when I'll get a chance to show what I can do?

  • But the experimenter will undertake to show what it is by ruffling it, by instigating this chief to put himself in the madness of his private affections, in the frenzy of his pride, into open opposition with it.

  • He felt full of desire to do things, to show what he was good for.

  • In the following remarks we shall seek to make this evident;--to show what principles of religion in general, and of Christianity in particular, may be pronounced safe from the shocks of doubt.

  • I turn to the Lord's Supper; with design to show what it is not, and what it is.

  • Him we accept, not indeed as very God, but as the true image of God, commissioned to show what no written doctrinal record could declare, the entire moral perfections of Deity.

  • In a spirit of bravado Browning proceeds to show what he himself could make of a walk provided he condescended to illuminate it by classic metaphor and symbol, and a remarkable passage is the result.

  • And you've put in a lot of time teaching me the Australian crawl stroke, and I want to show what I can do in a real swimming meet.

  • Then it came Blackie's turn to show what he had learned, while Wally stood on the dock and shouted directions.

  • Now, Blackie, I'm going to offer you a chance to show what sort of a spirit you have for helping to make the Tent Four boys known all over camp.

  • It is my business to show what sort of connexion in time belongs to the manifold in phenomena themselves, while the representation of this manifold in apprehension is always successive.

  • There is nothing like athletics to put boys on a common ground, and a fellow was always welcome to show what he could do.

  • Any fellow who thought he could do something in the line of college sports had only to report for a trial at the proper time, and at the place called for in the notice, and he was given a chance to show what he could do.

  • If a fellow thought he could pitch he was given a chance to show what he could do before the coach who was engaged especially to try out the pitchers.

  • In order to earn that extra twenty-five dollars a week I 've got to have a chance to show what I can do further.

  • I've got the good of this concern at heart and I want to show what can be done along original lines.

  • He was happy that the field of his activities was broadening, that he'd have a chance to show what was in him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "show 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:
    clasping her hands together; jolly time; must ever; observed facts; painted glass; pueblo architecture; show cause; show herself; show him; show itself; show myself; show signs; show their; show them; show what; show you; showed himself; shower bath; showing himself; showing the; shown above; shown below; shows that; topped hills; tubular boiler; yearly income