What would it mean to have no parents, no home, no name?
Sir, (said he,) by doing so, you would do what would be of importance in raising your children to eminence.
I ask you first, Sir, what would you do if you were affronted?
What would be the consequence, if a Minister, sure of a majority in the House of Commons, should resolve that there should be no speaking at all upon his side.
What would you do, tell me, if your sister listened to such a proposition?
You say truly, the gift of poor Edmond was not meant for such traitors as Fernand and Danglars; besides, what would it be to them?
You know that my means are limited, and that I am what would be designated a man of moderate pretensions.
I put case, said Sir Palomides, that ye were armed at all rights as well as I am, and I naked as ye be, what would you do to me now, by your true knighthood?
What would it profit a woman, for example, to get him a few months' imprisonment if her own ruin must immediately follow?
The first night he was reasonable enough, and was ready to give me what would make me free of the sea for life.
Well, then, what would either of you gentlemen have done if you had been in my position?
They cannot interfere on the strength of what would appear to them to be a wild suspicion.
After having passed an unmolested night, in what would appear to be neutral territory between Jemmy's tribe and the people whom we saw yesterday, we sailed pleasantly along.
All this is what would be expected in a new country; nevertheless the absence of gentlemen by profession appears to an Englishman something strange.
What would be the opinion of a geologist, viewing such an enormous collection of bones, of all kinds of animals and of all ages, thus embedded in one thick earthy mass?
What would become of the lofty houses, thickly packed cities, great manufactories, the beautiful public and private edifices?
What would a florist say to whole tracts, so thickly covered by the Verbena melindres, as, even at a distance, to appear of the most gaudy scarlet?
What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?
Tis good you know not that you are his heirs, For if you should, O, what would come of it!
I speak not like a dotard nor a fool, As under privilege of age to brag What I have done being young, or what would do, Were I not old.
The literary style is good, there are only a few trivial slips in spelling, and the appreciation is keen of what would be interesting news and gossip.
What would we not give to listen to the very accents and tones of the Sermon on the Mount, the orations of Demosthenes, the first Pitt's appeal for American liberty, the Farewell of Washington, or the Address at Gettysburg?
If the profits from farming were already small, what wouldthey be when no one would work without wages?
If the peasant was indolent and careless even under strict supervision, what would he become when no longer under the authority of a master?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what would" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
