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Example sentences for "what not"

  • Let it be fancy or what not, I love Marion Fay, and I have come here to tell her so.

  • It seemed to him that Fortune, Fate, Providence, or what not, had only done its duty.

  • What NOT to do--Do not for at least a month after the fit, give him artificial food, but keep him entirely to the breast.

  • In all these complaints I will tell you--What to do, and--What NOT to do.

  • What NOT to do in such a case--Do not apply leeches, the babe requires additional strength, and not to be robbed of it, and do not attempt to treat the case yourself.

  • What NOT to do--Do not give opiates, astringents, chalk, or any quack medicine whatever.

  • The notion that the man who does dreadful things is superhuman, and that therefore he can also do wonderful things either as ruler, avenger, healer, or what not, is by no means confined to barbarians.

  • We call them by different names: Immunization or Radiology or what not; but the dreams which lure us into the adventures from which we learn are always at bottom the same.

  • The Crow at once changed himself into a grub (just as Jupiter and Indra used to change into swans, horses, ants, or what not) and hid in the bark of a tree.

  • They will go wild on matters they are wholly unable to judge, such as Armenian Religion or the Politics of Paris or what not.

  • Devil contentedly; 'if you had taken a piece of rag, or what not, you might yourself.

  • Maybe some kind of wild-eyed Socialist upheaval, or attack, or what not.

  • The ghost in a haunted house is taken for a figure, say, of a monk, or of a monthly nurse, or what not, but no monthly nurse or monk is in the establishment.

  • Miss Morris,' who had been absent for a year, and whose own hallucinations were caused by noises which may have been produced by rats, or what not.

  • But, when he realized their weariness, he sent them off to rest, on carriage drives or yachting voyages or what not, with generous consideration of their inability to carry weight as he did night and day and every day and every night.

  • When he came to us he knew what every man of us had done in literature, art, science, or what not, and so far he made no mistakes either of ignorance or of misunderstanding.

  • They know that their own stories or essays or what not, are far superior to those accepted and published.

  • The fact is," she said, "he does not know his own mind, or what to fear or what not to fear.

  • When a house party is in progress, for instance, and every one comes in from tennis or golf or what not, eager for a bath and fresh clothes, washstands are most convenient.

  • This pool occupies the greater part of the basement floor of the Club house, the rest of the floor being given over to little rooms where one may have a shampoo or massage or a dancing lesson or what not before or after one's swim.

  • The living-room should always have a flavor of the main hobby of the family, whether it be books, or music, or sport, or what not.

  • Wherever there is a large table there is a long sofa or a few big chairs; wherever there is a lone chair there is a small table to hold a reading-light, or flowers, or what not.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what not" 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:
    followed the; former page; what became; what befell; what can; what cause; what comes; what constitutes; what evil; what goes; what had taken place; what happens; what has brought thee; what hath; what kinds; what need; what not; what part; what relates; what took; what was going forward; what was taking place; what will; what you might call; whatever the; whatever thou