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Example sentences for "what causes"

  • What causes a person to be short-sighted?

  • What causes water to rise in fountains, and how is this explained by figure 2, plate 14?

  • What causes conspire to lessen the solar heat in the morning and evening?

  • Bodies, in general, when placed in a ray differing in colour from their own, appear of a mixed hue, what causes this?

  • What causes most of the diseases of bones?

  • What causes disease or deformity of the bones?

  • What causes many of the diseases of the nerves?

  • What causes consumption (tuberculosis of the lungs)?

  • If we could determine what causes are correctly assigned to what effects, and what effects to what causes, we should be virtually acquainted with the whole course of nature.

  • In regard to Desire, they will have to examine what objects we desire naturally, and by what causes we are made to desire things originally indifferent, or even disagreeable to us; and so forth.

  • What causes musquitoes to come in rain water caught in a glass, covered over immediately with oil paper, tied down and so kept till full of these winged torments?

  • What causes frogs to come in drops of rain, or those drops of rain to turn to frogs, the moment they are on the earth?

  • Suppose, again, we answer that both are modes of motion, we only come to the further question, what causes motion?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what causes" 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:
    often have; what can; what causes; what condition; what exists; what goes; what had; what has gone before; what hath; what kind; what love; what nature; what number; what proportion; what religion; what respects; what seemed; what she; what the; what was; what was going forward; what were; what wilt; what you; whatever might; whatever part