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Example sentences for "what should"

  • What should we think of a chemist who, having ever so many jars of a certain substance in his laboratory, would prefer getting that substance from the atmosphere, in which merely infinitesimal traces of its vapour are to be found?

  • So that the comic, in all its forms, is what should be defined first, by discovering (a task which is already quite difficult enough) the clue that leads from one form to the other.

  • Footnote: Let brother, children, mother and wife all die, what should I care!

  • The question as to what should be done with the great wolf, Fenris, was not so easily answered.

  • MORAL And now, my dear little man, what should we learn from this parable?

  • Oh, what should we do if she should--But the doctor says the fever takes a stronger hold on persons of full habit like Belle, and now that I've made inquiries I find that it has been fatal in several instances.

  • What should we do if we had no money at all?

  • And now, after his useless falsehoods, what should he do?

  • When you are dead, of what should they be afraid?

  • Should ill happen to her, from an undertaking the motive of which is so worthy, so dignified, what should I say?

  • What should I a bin, an I ad had your settins out?

  • And now that your onnur is a thinkin of a more of lovin kindness and mercies, to me and mine, why a what should I say now?

  • What should I have been, had I neglected such an opportunity?

  • What should she do, how should she act if this loved one persevered in his love?

  • If she passed him at the church-door, as she often passed Lady Arabella, what should she do?

  • But he would, at any rate, tell his father, and then decide as to what should be done next.

  • Policemen also now flocked up, and the question arose as to what should be done with the originators of the affray.

  • And now that she did own it, what should be her course?

  • Sir, (said he,) you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republick.

  • I am very ill even when you are near me; what should I be were you at a distance?

  • We are no more to think, 'What should I like to do?

  • The strong and the good are one; and if our hope coincides with that of God, if it is rooted in his will, what should we do but rejoice in the effulgent glory of the First and the Last?

  • What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope from me to the few promises he had heard me utter!

  • If I should pause now in my conquests and sheathe my sword, what should I have gained by so many efforts but a little glory, without having approached the goal to which I was aspiring?

  • It seems to me wise, necessary, and truly patriotic that such men as we should hold timely consultations with each other as to what should be done, and how, where, and by whom it should be done.

  • My God, what should be done with a nation consisting of none but pure and virtuous men?

  • What should I have gained by setting all Europe in a blaze if I should be contented with having overthrown empires and not hasten to build up MY OWN empire on solid foundations?

  • This is a plain statement of the whole affair, and now tell me what should I be afraid of?

  • To bed,' replied Calista, 'What should I do there?

  • Marry sleep,' quoth the old gentlewoman; 'What should you do?

  • What should he have felt, what would he have done?

  • The question, however, was: What should he do?

  • James went on in a fluster: "Why, what should I know about it?

  • Made of" he wheezed out slowly, "what should it be made of?

  • What should I have to think of myself if I allowed my heart to be altered by such a cause as that?

  • And whether the punishment might be for six weeks or for two years, what should be done with the family?

  • What should be done with the poor man when he came out of prison?

  • Mrs Proudie had no doubt as to what should be done.

  • Then the father went out to see what was the matter, and, when he got out of doors, what should he see but a great White Bear.

  • Now I think it over, what should I do with a pig?

  • What should we do, therefore, but bestow her on Samvarana?

  • If the spiritual preceptor himself be vain, ignorant of what should be done and what left undone, and vicious in his ways, even he should be chastised.

  • Drupada said, 'O son of Kunti thy mother, and my son Dhrishtadyumna and thyself, settle amongst yourselves as to what should be done.

  • Thus addressed by that maiden in the presence of the Brahmanas, the heroic Bhishma began to reflect as to what should be done.

  • Behold, if all things could be said against thee which the utmost malice could invent, what should it hurt thee if thou wert altogether to let it go, and make no more account of it than of a mote?

  • What should I do in my so great tribulations and anxieties, unless Thou didst comfort me with Thy holy words?

  • If I knew all the things that are in the world, and were not in charity, what should it help me before God, who is to judge me according to my deeds?

  • What should it be but a letter, to be sure--Cleone's letter.

  • Why is a man a planter--because he plants things, an' what should a man plant but vegetables?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what should" 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:
    charming picture; following legislative; junior year; what about; what became; what becomes; what comes; what course; what did; what exists; what harm; what have you been; what king; what looked; what must; what ought; what shall; what time; what used; what wilt; what would you have; what would you think; what wouldst; what you; whatever happened; whatsoever thou