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Example sentences for "what did"

  • V What did he know of women, that should make him understand?

  • What did it matter if she were nice to that fellow in the brown coat?

  • For though she WERE being treated like a piece of lumber, what did it matter to her?

  • What did it matter what the damned cranky Englishman said?

  • What did you do on hearing how he had spoken about your mother?

  • What did I give it you for but to keep you quiet?

  • What did he care about the bye-gone aspirations of other would-be suitors?

  • What did he want to do that he had not done?

  • Why, the very people whose opinion you're afraid of--what did they do themselves when the South African craze was on?

  • What did I know of the insect and the flower, of the laws that moved the planets and made incandescent the suns?

  • If Nancy Durrett symbolized aristocracy, established order and prestige, what did Mrs. Scherer represent?

  • What did I care for the senatorship anyway--if I had her?

  • Since the motives of every philanthropist and public benefactor are inevitably challenged by cynics, there were many who asked the question, "What did Mr. Crewe want?

  • What did he hide that paper for, a year ago and more?

  • What did he mean by saying that his dream had become a vision?

  • What did you do before you became a soldier?

  • Now, what did I expect when I began these papers, and what is it that has begun to frighten me?

  • If Mrs. Abbott thought her rather strange, rather abrupt, what did it matter?

  • But, as though an unwelcome word must needs mingle with her pleasantest talk today, she went on to speak of Alma's husband; what did he think of the idea?

  • This letter of hers, what did it signify but the revolt of a spirit of independence, irritated by all manner of sufferings, great and small?

  • Arabs gave it back to him or not, what did he care?

  • What did a man bring home from the churches in the Nile valley?

  • Whether Timon or Ptolemy or he himself should win--what did it matter?

  • What did it matter, so all came right in the end!

  • What did it matter whether or no the Judge liked elderberry wine, when the world was falling down for Jean Jacques and his Zoe--and his wife.

  • There," said Jean Jacques, "what did I tell you?

  • What did I care for the Doctor's report to the Duke!

  • But at sunrise the next morning a suspicious circumstance occurred; and Mr. Duncalf whispered to the boatswain: "What did I tell you?

  • And when the wretch had done his best to kill you, and when it came to your turn, what did you do?

  • What did he find when he reached the garden?

  • What did it matter to me now, if my death from exhaustion was hastened by a day or two?

  • Of course it was all utterly mad and unreasonable, for, after all, what did he really know about her, and what was there in her to lay hold of him with such strength?

  • My parents were dead; I had no friends who cared for me--what did it matter!

  • When at last he saw what he was dying to see, what did he say?

  • What did he say he wants with those books?

  • How is--what did I understand you to say?

  • What did he care for fines, if the chance of the pig was gone?

  • What did I tell you was meant by carry one?

  • What did Bessie do when her sum was being overlooked?

  • What did it avail then to have been a great emperor, a great general, a marvellous inventor, the most learned of the learned?

  • What did he come here for to teach us his own language or to learn it from us.

  • What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction?

  • What did it profit a man to gain the whole world if he lost his soul?

  • What did he think the government would offer?

  • I ask you, my little friends, What did my consciousness reply?

  • But the poor Injuns--not that I care much for Injuns--what did he do for them?


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what did" 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:
    fertile plain; our language; what authority; what cases; what country; what effect; what goes; what have; what importance; what made; what might; what not; what part; what seemeth; what sense; what terms; what the traffic will; what things; what went; what were; what while; what would you have; what you; whatever cost; whatever may; whatsoever they