What can a man do, what can he say, when he is discovered in a bed which is not his, even on the score of hiring, with a woman who is no more his than the bed is?
Lisbeth in an undertone to Hortense, "what can you do?
The unexpressed factor is part of my revenge; what can I do?
Rochester and Buckingham looked at each other, as much as to say,--"What can be the matter with her?
Besides, what can be more permissible than to write to an old friend of twelve years' standing, particularly when the letter begins with the words 'Monsieur Raoul'?
What can be the use of weakening a corps by placing the right here, and the left there?
What can I do with Parry as my only servant, with Parry, whom Monk has already driven from his presence?
What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming?
What can be more extraordinary than these well-ascertained facts?
We see the same great law in the construction of the mouths of insects: what can be more different than the immensely long spiral proboscis of a sphinx-moth, the curious folded one of a bee or bug, and the great jaws of a beetle?
To begin with the most important of all the laws, that which decides the order of succession to the throne; what can be more immutable in its principle than a political order founded upon the natural succession of father to son?
What can be expected of a man who has spent twenty years of his life in making heads for pins?
Of the behavior of Wied, Mollendorf, and their people, indeed of the Prussians one and all, what can be said, but that it was worthy of their Captain and of the Plannings he had made?
At Schonbrunn, in the short hours, Kappel finds Frau Kappel in state of unappeasable curiosity: 'What can it be?
What can they be like, these poems, these stories?
What can be more uninteresting than an agreeable conversation I mean, a conversation--where everybody is in agreement?
After all," said the Philosopher, "what can a man do more than tell a woman that he loves her?
What can I have said, that you think so very foolish?
My sweet friend," she said, taking one of his passive hands in both of hers, "what can I say to comfort you?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what can" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
