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Example sentences for "what use"

  • Good," said Xenophon, "but to what use do you propose to put us, if we become your allies?

  • My proposal is that a deputation of fit persons, with Clearchus, should go to Cyrus: let them go to Cyrus and ask him: what use he proposes to make of us?

  • Still it is needful to understand oneself; but of what use is it for me to try to sound the well of my own soul?

  • Of what use would it be to mention the nationalities to which they belong?

  • I have merely found aridity in the place of indolence; and the results of the exchange I know only too well; of what use is it to go through them once more?

  • Besides, what use is therein disputing the fact?

  • What use would a Bohemian bishop or priest, who did not know the German language, be in Germany?

  • What use, asked Peter, were these learned pundits?

  • What use, he asked, were schemes of education if a good foundation were not first laid by the mother?

  • Of what use is it to fight for things and make a noise?

  • But of what use is it telling a woman with a garden that she ought really to be ashamed of herself for being happy?

  • Of what use is hearing, except to listen to her?

  • But once more I ask you, of what use is it when one dies?

  • But of what use to have money when one dies?

  • Ask me, then, 'Of what use to possess it, when one makes no use of what one possesses?

  • What use have I ever had from this religion that has been dinned into me?

  • They do not ask, "Of what use is any religion?

  • As to the teaching of Christ, of what use is a teaching that is suitable only to an ideal state of things?

  • If you have the instinct of God, then is evidence unnecessary; and if you have not, of what use is the evidence brought forward?

  • But granted, people may say, that religion is what you say, a cult of the emotions, of what use is it?

  • If such be the case, the problem of the relation of the child and the curriculum presents itself in this guise: Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

  • Of what use is this formulated statement of experience?

  • She thought to herself, "If I cannot obtain him, of what use is my life to me.

  • And when the Vetala wanted to kill him, he dissuaded him, and said, "Of what use will it be to us to kill this miserable heretic?

  • Of what use is this body that brings only pain?

  • For of what use is my life, unless I can return having seen that city, and obtain the princess as the prize of the achievement?

  • As she has said this to me I have come to you, O king, in a state of distress; for, as she has refused to be married, what use is there in deliberating about a bridegroom?

  • Since Laveuve was dead, of what use was it for him to kill time and perambulate the pavements pending the arrival of six o'clock?

  • Of what use could be this additional monstrosity?

  • What use would it be for him to dress as men dress, if in reality he was never to be a man?

  • Of what use to the young leaves is the downy covering?

  • Of what use is the brown colour of the bud?

  • Of what use is the hard shell of the seed?

  • Of what use to the tree is the healing of the scar?

  • Of what use is it to the bud to be between the twig and the leaf stalk?

  • Of what use should I be in a town among people whose habits or characters I should not understand?

  • Excellenza, will help my appeal to the Council--they cannot refuse me--what use am I to anybody or myself?

  • And as regards a surplus of wealth, of what use is that to any one?

  • Of what use was he to them--a sufferer expecting each day to be his last, and not daring to move beyond the door of the peasant's cottage that sheltered him?

  • Of what use to bandy words with an angry woman?

  • Of what use to waste upon the long ride there and back time so precious in a last week?

  • But of what use is this one which the beauteous Damake has presented to me?

  • What use would it have been to you not to have brought it to me?

  • Prudent Tasnar," said the Prince, "I admire thy foresight; but of what use is this murdered slave now to us?

  • The Master said: Of what use is cleverness of speech?

  • Of what use is that minister likely to be, who does not sustain his master in the presence of danger, or support him when about to fall?

  • But of what use to bring up again the old grief, what use to reproach others?

  • But still, what use to torment one's self?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what use" 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:
    defense expenditures; female form; looking straight; made yeast; master said; vague sense; what amount; what belongs; what did; what direction; what effect; what had been said; what has been called; what kinds; what need; what passes; what people; what proportion; what purpose; what says; what seemeth; what takes; what then; what thing; what time; what was going forward