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Example sentences for "what used"

  • He's Jacob Berkowitz, what used to run the Up-to-Date Store in Seattle.

  • Kaskel Schwartz, what used to be foreman for Pinkel Brothers, him and Moe Feigel goes as partners together in skirts.

  • That's a feller by the name Osher Katzenelenbogen, what used to work for us as buttonhole-maker when we was new beginners already.

  • Human interaction extends in our days beyond the immediate circle of acquaintances, or what used to be the family circle.

  • One does not need to be rich to have access to what used to be the food of those who could afford it.

  • Over time, as the scale of human experience changed, community expectations were reflected in what used to be the domain of the individual or that of families.

  • In what used to be the Soviet Union, chances were that the winter sports teams would be recruited from the Siberian population, where skiing is a way of life.

  • This is what used to be the pillar of the pulpit, and under all that, at the end there, must be buried the altar, with the cross and the candles that used to be stars.

  • The Red Cross has a cantine at the station in what used to be the buffet.

  • There are two ways of entering Newcastle since the High Level Bridge across the Tyne has supplemented what used to be the old Tyne Bridge, once, and until fifty years ago, the only way of crossing the river except by boat.

  • She was just such another woman to look at as old Miss Keen, what used to live down in the town; and a better woman never was.

  • Fred Baker's wife, what used to be signalman, for one.

  • What used to be called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is now called a surveying orifice.

  • It is what used to be called the Rue Blomet.

  • Here also was the house of Hassan Effendi, on what used to be the corner of a street, a tiny house with whitewashed bricks, an arched porch and a covered gallery which gave on a miniature garden.

  • The fountains are silent and the little lake is dry--while the sad nakedness of its gray cement marks the resting-place for the broken remains of what used to be the shining little mahogany rowboat.

  • His house, or what used to be his house is the one just opposite us.

  • I wants 'ee to take thees yer parcel to Mr Brindley-Botton's (what used to live to Southview House) in time for lunch.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what used" 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:
    come near; horse sense; what account; what became; what cannot; what condition; what could; what had once been; what has been called; what has been done; what have you done; what king; what love; what nature; what need; what occurred; what proportion; what reason; what remained; what says; what sense; whatever cost; whatever form; whatever happens; whatever they; whatsoever they