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Example sentences for "what the"

  • What the people of that small island have done during the last five hundred years has shaped the course of history in every corner of the world.

  • What the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians and the Persians contributed to civilisation.

  • There were many forecasts as to what the effect of the Farnum story would be on the election returns.

  • What the devil do you mean by running about officiously and bothering about other people's souls?

  • Can youse tell me what the vote of your precinct was at the last city election?

  • The vessel told me what the vessel's master might have concealed--the truth.

  • What the woman's quicker insight had discovered days since, the man's slower perception had only realized in the past night.

  • Mrs Chic 'if you can bear to see me in this state, and not ask me what the matter is, you had better hold your tongue for ever.

  • That is what the greatest of painters, Raphael, felt profoundly, when he said that art consists in rendering things, not as nature made them, but as it should have made them.

  • That is what the critics of the bill should have said, and that is what none of them saw.

  • That is what the elite of the French youth are condemned to bleat after their professors, for a year, or else forfeit their diplomas and the privilege of studying law, medicine, polytechnics, and the sciences.

  • I would not leave it to the chances of promotion, or to the characters of lawyers, what the law of the land, what the rights of juries, or what the liberty of the press should be.

  • They testify more to those who drew them than to what the drawing is about.

  • What the rest of the world consumed in the last fifteen years (along with fashion, fast food chains, soft drinks, and consumer electronics) penetrated the lives of those whose revolt took place under the banner of the right to consume.

  • We would certainly fail to understand what is happening, what the long-lasting consequences of the changes we face are, and what the best course of action is, if we were to look only at the influence of technology.

  • What the deuce, man, are you alarmed about?

  • What the deuce am I to do with two thousand pounds?

  • What the devil's that to you or any one here if I am?

  • What the beef-steak pudding would have come to, if it had not been by this time finished, astrology itself could hardly determine.

  • Let me inquire,' said Martin, interposing between this candid speech and the delivery of some blighting anathema by Mr Tigg, 'what the amount of this debt may be?

  • I felt that he was not to me what the crowd of young men who had made proposals had been, but something very different.

  • What the explanation of this gift, power, or intuition may be, is perhaps better left to the psychologist to speculate upon.

  • Now who cares to know how many bushels of wheat we grew to the acre, or how the cattle milched till we ate them, or what the turn of the seasons was?

  • What the devil's the good of an alderman?

  • Why, what the devil's the matter with the lad?

  • Give me a good scuffle; let me pay off old scores in a bold riot where there are men to stand by me; and then use me as you like--it don't matter much to me what the end is!

  • She wondered in what the lodger's experiments consisted.

  • As she sat there she also reminded herself, and not for the first time, what the lodger's departure would mean.

  • Do you ever try and make to yourself a picture of what the master's like?

  • He would have dismissed all this out of his mind with a contemptuous: 'What the devil do I care?

  • Franklin muttered, "Depends on what the wife is up to.

  • And considering, too, what the arrival of Captain Anthony meant in this connection, I wondered at the calmness with which she could mention that fact.

  • It is his fiue sences: fie, what the ignorance is Bar.

  • Since Lords of England, it is thus agreed, That peacefull truce shall be proclaim'd in France, We come to be informed by your selues, What the conditions of that league must be Yorke.

  • Caska will tell vs what the matter is Caes Antonio Ant.

  • What the vengeance, could he not speake 'em faire?

  • What the good-yere, doe you thinke I would denye her?

  • This passage affords an excellent example of what the method of literal translation can do at its best.

  • The true religious feeling was thus, in his opinion, what the author of "Ecce Homo" has finely termed "the enthusiasm of humanity.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what the" 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:
    pound notes; private individual; what amount; what appeared; what are; what can; what cannot; what degree; what dost; what else; what followed; what has; what has been done; what importance; what land; what light; what really; what respect; what respects; what terms; what things; what took; what wilt thou have; what woman; whatever may; when crossed