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Example sentences for "that which"

  • Every man had to do that which he knew how to do.

  • When the mind is at ease, the body has leisure to be delicate, but the temper in his mind did take all feeling else from his senses, but of that which beat at his heart.

  • The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet.

  • One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

  • One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.

  • That which comes in the mail; letters, etc.

  • That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

  • The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.

  • That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.

  • A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

  • One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.

  • That which he admires in the British army he would find even more apparent in the German army; that which he desires in the British police he would find flourishing, in the French police.

  • Humility will always, by preference, go clad in scarlet and gold; pride is that which refuses to let gold and scarlet impress it or please it too much.

  • The worst form of slavery is that which is called Caesarism, or the choice of some bold or brilliant man as despot because he is suitable.

  • But no one can reasonably doubt that he means steadily and sincerely to say something, and the only serious question is, What is that which he has tried to say?

  • Now these habits, opinions, customs, and convictions are precisely the constituent elements of that which I have denominated manners.

  • In what part of human tradition can be found anything at all similar to that which is occurring under our eyes in North America?

  • That which he most loved I most hated; and the very determination which he expressed to keep me in ignorance, only rendered me the more resolute in seeking intelligence.

  • Among much other interesting matter, that which I had perused and reperused with unflagging satisfaction, was a short dialogue between a master and his slave.

  • Long may they live, and may blessings attend them in this life and in that which is to come!

  • I am free to say, I greatly prefer it to that which I occupied in Maryland.

  • That which is required for our labor and consumption; Cicero's comparison of the earth to a theatre proves it.

  • That which belongs to each is not that which each MAY possess, but that which each HAS A RIGHT to possess.

  • Passing then to the study of war, he proves that it by no means corresponds in practice to that which it ought to be according to his theory of the right of force.

  • Pitiable actors in a tragedy nearing its end, that which it behooves us to do is to precipitate the catastrophe.

  • But, perhaps, the most interesting story illustrative of the practice of carrying one's reading around with one is that which is told of Professor Porson, the Greek scholar.

  • For of that which is of little worth is the loss not so great as of that which is much worth.

  • Natheless, he yielded you up the sword upon covenant that you should do that which a damsel should first ask you to do thereafter, and you promised him loyally that so would you do?

  • Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

  • And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that which" 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:
    begin upon; little friends; national prosperity; that ain; that boy; that date; that day; that even; that from; that had; that has; that land; that last; that law; that life; that matter; that period; that prince; that province; that side; that state; that town; that when; that which; that while; that woman