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Example sentences for "the whole"

  • It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.

  • The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

  • The whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer any capital.

  • When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character.

  • Every one who has heard you speak has felt, and, I am confident, every one who reads your book will feel, persuaded that you give them a fair specimen of the whole truth.

  • The whole armory of Northern Law has no shield for you.

  • I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery.

  • In this dialogue, the whole argument in behalf of slavery was brought forward by the master, all of which was disposed of by the slave.

  • Why, she must be the most beautiful girl in the whole world!

  • Elnora stepped in beside her, bent half double, the whole front of her dress gathered into a sort of bag filled with a heavy load, and one arm stacked high with books.

  • There isn't another calico dress in the whole building, not among hundreds of us.

  • At the end of the aisle she paused in desperation, while she stared back at the whole forest of faces most of which were now turned upon her.

  • Better than any little boy in the whole world.

  • Descending from her perch she again sauntered off towards Rainbarrow, though this time she did not go the whole way.

  • Longer coffins were never made in the whole country of South Wessex, and 'tis said that poor George's knees were crumpled up a little e'en as 'twas.

  • Its windows are mainly east; and in the early morning, when the sun is bright, the whole apartment is in a perfect blaze of splendour.

  • At last Yeobright made a beginning of what was intended to strike at the whole root of the matter.

  • Very likely; but useful to the whole world," said Captain Nemo.

  • The whole sky, though lit by the sidereal rays, seemed black by contrast with the whiteness of the waters.

  • A small iron bedstead, a table, some articles for the toilet; the whole lighted by a skylight.

  • At the time I embarked on the Abraham Lincoln, the whole of this island had risen in insurrection against the despotism of the Turks.

  • When I got a little ways I heard the dim hum of a spinning-wheel wailing along up and sinking along down again; and then I knowed for certain I wished I was dead--for that IS the lonesomest sound in the whole world.

  • Mr. Kean Assisted by the whole strength of the company!

  • On the whole, he had an incorruptible modesty.

  • And yet his answer had a resonant inward echo, and he repeated to himself, "Yes, on the whole, I prefer ours.

  • But it remained as true as before that it would have been impossible, on the whole, to violate ceremony with less of lasting offense.

  • That, his position and attitude were, on the whole, sublime.

  • Why, man alive, she was the admiration of the whole Court!

  • France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it.

  • Charlie Sloane made for that chair, noticed the cushion behind it, solemnly fished it up, and sat on it the whole evening.

  • Why, that is where the humor comes in, and it's one of the best parts of the whole story," said Anne.

  • Tom he turned his back to git room and be private, and then he smole a smile that spread around and covered the whole Sahara to the westward, back to the Atlantic edge of it where we come from.

  • As I understand it, the whole thing is in the buttons and the peg--the rest ain't of no consequence.

  • Mac 10:8 They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.

  • Too many restrictions could not be thrown in the way of divorces, if we wished to maintain the sanctity of marriage; and, though they might bear a little hard on a few, very few individuals, it was evidently for the good of the whole.

  • I had been hunted almost into a fever, by the watchmen of the quarter of the town I frequented; one, whom I had unwittingly offended, giving the word to the whole pack.

  • Had I the command of millions, were I mistress of the whole world, your brother would be my only choice.

  • She saw that the infatuation had been created, the mischief settled, long before her quitting Bath, and it seemed as if the whole might be traced to the influence of that sort of reading which she had there indulged.

  • She had resisted its approaches during the whole length of a speech, but it now carried her captive.

  • For my part I have not seen anything I like so well in the whole room, I assure you.

  • And they did try to hide, and tried to fly: that was just the fun of the whole thing.

  • It was certainly a preposterous suggestion that anyone could ever upset Mr. Jellyband's firmly-rooted opinions anent the utter worthlessness of the inhabitants of the whole continent of Europe.

  • It seemed indeed as if the whole country in that direction was on fire--a broad hillside set with minute tongues of flame, swaying and writhing with the gusts of the dying storm, and throwing a red reflection upon the cloud-scud above.

  • The whole of the second volley flew wide of the Martian on the ground, and, simultaneously, both his companions brought their Heat-Rays to bear on the battery.

  • The news that the Martians were now in possession of the whole of London was confirmed.

  • The whole population of the great six-million city was stirring, slipping, running; presently it would be pouring en masse northward.

  • The whole surface of the earth seemed changed--melting and flowing under my eyes.

  • The Journalist too, would not believe at any price, and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the whole" 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:
    merry time; the breath; the cities; the covenant; the executive; the king; the people; the thoughts; thee must; then about; then both; then enter; then given; then serve; then sprinkle; then turned; thence will; there must; there she; there should; there would have been; these countries; these laws; these two; these words; wede away