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Example sentences for "what right"

  • By what right could I accept such a sacrifice?

  • And had not he said to his sire--“By what right do I dare to question the conduct of parents who have ever treated me to kindly?

  • What right has he to domineer over me in that way?

  • What right had he to incur a loss which would incapacitate him from keeping his engagements with her?

  • What right had he to think that he could judge of that better than the girl herself?

  • By what right--he seemed to ask--had I nourished him all these years if now I meant to starve him?

  • What right has he got to go nosing around Dalton Street?

  • What right has a man to make you and me work for him just because he has capital?

  • What right had he to be contented with life?

  • By what right does a man, or an organization of men, or a god, claim to hold a brain in bondage?

  • What right has he to murder the sunshine of the day?

  • What right has he to assassinate the joy of life?

  • By what right do you make your conscience prevail over theirs?

  • What right have I to hold her to her word when other men might make her happier?

  • What right had he to come and interfere with her, since he did not care for her and thought she was nothing but a child?

  • Besides, what right has a man with a hundred a year to bind any woman to the prospect of the life of narrow economies and privations such an income would necessarily entail?

  • If he were willing to sacrifice himself, what right had he to sacrifice her?

  • By what right had he presumed to take this step?

  • What right hath he to account my brains so much worser than his (I being the same creature as he) that I cannot learn aught he can?

  • Fetch him a good buffet of his ear, forsooth, and ask at him by what right he called himself a man.

  • What right had he to attempt to see her after her so positive dismissal?

  • And your church--what right has it to plead ignorance of the life about its very doors?

  • What right had he to the companionship of this woman?

  • What right I say, have you or your church to be ignorant of these everyday conditions of life?

  • What right has a little bishop in a purple stock and doeskin breeches, who hangs back in his palace from the very call of God, to a phrase so fine and tragic as "the body of this death?

  • What right had he to use one cent of this money for any purpose whatever, when another day might be his last?

  • What right had he to subject her to the annoyance of dunning letters, of suggestive inquiries on the part of her neighbors?

  • What right had he to ask her to be his wife?

  • What right has a nation in respect to its government?

  • What right is guarantied by the second amendment?

  • By common law, what right to the personal property does the husband acquire by marriage?

  • What right is guarantied by the fourth article?

  • What right had he to shirk the sight of Arthur's misery?

  • Hugh went to church with the younger ones--what right had he to spare himself any pain?

  • At home Hugh was much more convinced of the unsuitableness of his choice than he had been in Italy; and now, after all that had passed, what right had he to create such a family convulsion as would be caused by any renewal of it?

  • After that, what right had he to come here and make such a statement as he did to my aunt?

  • What right have I to hope for anything when I refused him while I was rich?

  • What right have I given her to be my advisor, because I go to her husband's church?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what right" 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:
    just for; not surprising; what are; what doth; what effect; what had taken place; what has been done; what looked; what love; what manner; what matter; what meanes; what need; what other; what religion; what respects; what says; what seemed; what strange; what use; what was taking place; what word; whatever else; whatever rank; whatever you; whatsoever things