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Example sentences for "what are"

  • What are we in the great scale of events, we poor defenceless frontier inhabitants?

  • In the meantime, what are we going to do about everything?

  • And that reminds me: Speaking of the practical, now that the book is finished, what are we going to do with it?

  • Your little individual experience, my little individual experience,--what are they?

  • But to him, mouldering in his narrow and humble habitation, what are they?

  • To what are we to impute these disorders, and to what cause assign the decay of a State so powerful and flourishing in past times?

  • Still, what are you, but a robber--a base dishonest robber?

  • What are we to do with this woman, who looks like I don't know what?

  • Then he asked: "'What are we going to do?

  • Maillochon asked: "Well, what are we going to do now?

  • What are we, if the sovereign's grace and favor Stand not before us!

  • What are you in this kingdom--tell me, what?

  • Say, And speak roundly, what are we to deem you?

  • Take a short (yet let it not be a slight) view of the best of the things men prize so high, that for the love of, they lose their souls: what are they?

  • With respect to thy desires, what are they?

  • Snuff-dishes, you may say, what are they?

  • House and land, trades and honours, places and preferments, what are they to salvation?

  • But the point I wish to make now in both these cases is the exact correspondence of the problem; what are remedies to-day were remedies five hundred years ago.

  • To what are we easily attracted in our first study of history?

  • What are some of the reasons assigned for free trade?

  • If so, what are some of the rights declared, and whose are they said to be?

  • What are some of the reasons assigned for protection?

  • What are fact-collectors worth if the fact co-ordinators may not rely upon them?

  • Thus," continues Mr. Allen, "the name of Darwin will often no doubt be tacked on to what are in reality the principles of Lamarck.

  • Great Heavens, Beatrice," exclaimed the engineer, "what are we up against?

  • What are months or even years in the life-history of the world?

  • Let's see, now, what are we up against here?

  • What are my men on strike for all of a sudden?

  • What are my feelings, then, when I find that there is one subject avoided by us!

  • It then begins to be Miss Tox's occupation to prepare little dainties--or what are such to her--to be carried into these rooms next morning.

  • What are my feelings when I see her pining!

  • Chih Neng got in a dreadful state, and stamping her feet, cried, "What are you up to?

  • What are, however, the events recorded in this work?

  • Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?

  • I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?

  • I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?

  • Recoiling] But, Dot, what are we really going to have for the baby?

  • With a little sound of sympathy] What are you-- thirty-five?

  • As to the filling the vacancies of the abbeys, he further replied: "What are abbeys to YOU?

  • What are we to think of such a fall, such a humiliation on the part of a sovereign?

  • What are we to think of such haughtiness on the part of a priest,--his subject?


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what are" 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:
    carrying the; opera singer; what became; what can; what chance; what else; what had been done; what had once been; what has gone before; what matters; what may; what name; what need; what occurred; what place; what right; what they; what things; what time did you; what was; what way; what were; what wilt thou have; what would you think; what wouldst; whatever form