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Example sentences for "whatever"

Lexicographically close words:
whase; what; whatcher; whate; whateber; whativer; whativver; whatna; whatnot; whats
  1. Whatever they attempted it must be in relation to the man's world in which livings were made; but the immemorial conditions were almost wholly unchanged.

  2. It related to the quality of his work, which was quietly artistic and psychological, whatever liveliness of incident it uttered on the surface.

  3. She must feel that to his knowledge of life she and her experiment had an absurdity which would not pass, whatever their success might be.

  4. He tacitly noted the fact, as the novelist notes whatever happens or appears to him, but he let the occasion drop out of his mind as soon as he could after it had dropped out of his talk.

  5. I hope that after my experience, whatever it is, some young woman of courage will follow.

  6. Every one of them took a small piece, wished the occupants of the mess 'A Happy Christmas,' nibbled the cake or whatever it was, and then hastily secreted the remains in his pocket.

  7. They darted out at full speed to ward off the British attack, perhaps to deliver one of their own; but whatever happened they were too late, for the British small craft, swinging round, turned to meet them.

  8. Whatever his method was, it had the desired effect, for thereafter Ordinary Seaman Peter Flannagan treated Petty Officer Samuel Breech with a respect which almost amounted to reverence.

  9. I shall merely present them with an ormolu timepiece--whatever that may be.

  10. They had come to know the vagaries of their cruising ground by heart; but whatever its aspect the sea was ever innocent of the one thing they all wished to see--the German High Sea Fleet.

  11. He always had an insatiable appetite, whatever the weather, and a 'little bit of a sea like this' did not incommode him in the slightest.

  12. But the referee, used to the ways of seamen, merely smiled, and paid no attention whatever to the ribald remarks hurled at his head, personal as some of them were.

  13. But he had his own ideas of feminine beauty, and, whatever happened, the young lady must be pretty.

  14. At the time, whatever they may have felt in their hearts or minds, there were no suggestions of fear in their faces, no trace of nervousness in their demeanour.

  15. But whatever the result, the raider evidently received a warmer reception than she had bargained for, for after being in sight for barely a minute she swung off and disappeared from view at a good fifty miles an hour.

  16. But Pincher, whatever his qualities, was no plaster saint.

  17. In some cases, perhaps, the hilarity was a trifle forced, for when folk realise that war is practically inevitable they think they must appear to be cheerful whatever their personal feelings may be.

  18. But whatever we may have said about bombing attacks at sea, air raids on a town are not the least bit amusing until afterwards.

  19. Cripplestraw had been left in charge, and Festus had found no difficulty in forcing from that dependent the keys of whatever he required.

  20. Anne did not reply, being much exercised in trying to get her hand away from the one that imprisoned it; and whatever the miller thought he kept to himself, because it disturbed his smoking to speak.

  21. Whether he is sober or not is nothing whatever to me,' said Anne.

  22. There was no change whatever in them, unless it were that a certain light of interest kindled by her question turned to complete and blank indifference.

  23. If he wish me to,' she replied, so addressing the miller that no part, scrap, or outlying beam whatever of her glance passed near the subject of her remark.

  24. When they had started on their walk, Anne said in a practical way, to show that there was no sentiment whatever in her acceptance of his company, 'Mother was much alarmed about me, perhaps?

  25. These had nothing whatever to do with John Loveday, as may be imagined, but with a stout, staid boat- builder in Cove Row by the quay, who had shown much interest in her impersonations.

  26. Whatever do I see yonder--a row of white things on the down?

  27. The most sheltered place had been chosen for them, and snug huts had been built for their use by their husbands, of clods, hurdles, a little thatch, or whatever they could lay hands on.

  28. And whatever you do, Jack, don't say a word about this other girl.

  29. Whatever has made you come now, sir, of all times in the world?

  30. At all events, you know whatever happens I will never see you in any trouble.

  31. But why you should desire to have arrested a man who, whatever his sins, has never harmed you, I do not know.

  32. I am not a wicked woman, you know that, whatever my past may have been.

  33. Indeed; you'll find that whatever I may have lost, I still have them.

  34. The Major came to the conclusion that whatever he was, he was no ruffian.

  35. Yes, I may as well confess it, I love Mr. Arkel; whatever you may think of me, I love him.

  36. Whatever I am, I'm not the man to think lightly of a woman because she has had to come through the rough and tumble of life a bit.

  37. They seemed to understand one another without recourse to words for the situation--whatever the situation might be--adjusted itself between them on a swift interchange of glances.

  38. Now, Dicky, whatever you do you must not say a word about it.

  39. This property is Gerald's, and whatever the consequences, to him it goes.

  40. The two armies together will, from what we hear, amount to sixty or seventy thousand; and there is no doubt whatever that, with all their faults, the beggars can fight.

  41. The Sirdar asked me about you, and I was able to give him a very favourable report of your readiness to be of service, for whatever work I have found for you to do.

  42. Gregory had no faith whatever in Dervish gratitude.

  43. In that case, whatever happens to you and the child, you will have nothing to reproach yourself for.

  44. I know enough of you to be sure that, whatever your course may be, you will bear yourself as a true gentleman, worthy of your father and of the name you bear.

  45. Well, I hope that whatever comes of all this, the question as to whose influence is to be paramount in Egypt will be finally settled.

  46. Whatever happens to you will, I hope, happen to me.

  47. As for Mr. Hilliard, he has performed feats that any officer in the army, whatever his rank, would be proud to have done.

  48. I hope my friends may come tomorrow, for, whatever my fate may be, anything is better than uncertainty.

  49. Khatim came to me afterwards, and advised me to stay, but I said that it might be years before I had another chance to escape; and that, whatever risk there was, I would prefer running it.

  50. He adds: "I urged her to this good work as much as I could; for good, by whatever hand done, endures.

  51. Yet, whatever may be asserted, the new monarch never dreamed of restoring the old regime.

  52. In whatever direction she turned her glance, the Duchess of Berry saw about her only reasons for satisfaction and security.

  53. She was to be seen at all expositions and in all the shops, buying whatever was offered that was most remarkable.

  54. I must confess, whatever may be said, that the latter under his reign was more esteemed, respected, feted, than it has been since under Louis XVIII.

  55. Sometimes she kept these purchases, sometimes she sent them to her family at Naples, Vienna, Madrid, and her letters used warmly to recommend in foreign cities whatever was useful or beautiful in France.

  56. Not that I had the least faith in the ceremony, but as everything was wanting to legitimacy, it had to be sustained by every means, whatever it might be worth.

  57. Some isolated carriages, passing rapidly over the route, as if every one longed to be more promptly rid of whatever is grave and mournful in this day of cruel memory.

  58. Whatever the hour, she never adjourned this task to the morrow.

  59. He had, in fine, nothing of the sailor whatever in his appearance--being more like a half-pay Methodist parson.

  60. I had then to make a small detour to get through the wicket in the fence; but before I got round, whatever it might have been, it was nowhere to be seen.

  61. Here we could hear the creature, whatever it was, puff and blow, and the splashing of the paddle became louder, while every now and then it gave a thump with its open palm on the side of the canoe, or whatever it might be it was in.

  62. Presently, however, it began to grow indistinct and misty; and, whatever it was, it imperceptibly melted away and disappeared.

  63. She had neither bulwarks, quarters, nor rail, nor in fact any ledge whatever round the gunnel, so that she had no use for scuppers.

  64. The master now came suddenly on deck, and at the same moment a man bolted up the fore-hatchway, and ran aft to him; showing by the energy of his action that the matter he was communicating was alarming, whatever its nature might be.

  65. We, the non-naked party, would be reasonably warm, whatever the result might be.

  66. The Turk has his own peculiar morals, and whatever he may be he is not a coward.

  67. At length we had nothing whatever to eat but our daily ration of bread and almost unlimited potatoes.

  68. However, they had little difficulty in accepting me as the "wanted" man, though the commandant said he felt a little aggrieved that I had no points of resemblance whatever to my official description.

  69. Just before this, orders had been issued for the arrest of all the Jews in Palestine, whatever position they might hold.

  70. Medlicott explained to him (in bad French) that they were going from that room at once, whatever the general said, and that if he made a noise, they would be compelled to use force to keep him quiet.

  71. In spite of the fact that every man was ready to do his utmost, at whatever personal risk, to help a friend who was trying to escape, each man was advised to keep his own plans of escape strictly to himself.

  72. He thanked whatever gods there be for his unconquerable soul," and would have no truck with the Germans.

  73. He stood looking after us, but we both had thick sticks and he could not have stopped us whatever he may have thought.

  74. He had nothing whatever to do with the exchange of prisoners; and in order to explain his presence I must digress here to give some account, probably rather inaccurate, of his previous adventures in Turkey.

  75. I thought that we had probably better obey him, but none of the other prisoners paid any attention whatever to the noise he was making till several sentries bustled us through the main door and into the Commandant's bureau.

  76. Nothing has since been heard of the third, and to the best of my belief the Turks made no effort whatever to save him.

  77. If we compare Afion with Clausthal, which in 1916 was one of the best camps in Germany, I think there is no doubt whatever that any man would have preferred to be a prisoner in the German camp.

  78. We carried on with our breakfasts or whatever we were doing, and an N.

  79. No prerogative whatever can thereby be conferred upon either the guessing faculty or the guesser as such.

  80. Whatever be the amount of 'abstraction' involved, the verbal method savours of very old-established malpractices.

  81. Let them consider that the first christians of whatever condition of life, all applied themselves to some employment, not as an amusement, but as a serious, useful, constant business.

  82. For whole bands of foreigners, are waiting in these small stations, and they rush in to take whatever seat they may find.

  83. Whatever blissful consequences flow from the perfect obedience, the finished atonement, the resurrection, ascension, or intercession of the Lord Jesus, all are ours by His own gift.

  84. And without exception, all those who are not saved, whatever they may know besides, know nothing of this.

  85. Grace doth much more abound;" and whatever possessions the world has lost by sin, it has gained far more by grace.

  86. Without exception, all those who have passed from death unto life, whatever they may not know, have learned this.

  87. Is it possible for us to know anything whatever of our heavenly home?

  88. It was the custom in old times, for all the poor in the parish to call at every house with bowls for provisions; and whatever size the bowl was, every generous person would fill it.

  89. But whatever the sunshine and the brightness, if the heart be troubled, the whole life must be troubled too.

  90. If we have sharpened our swords on the cross, we have nothing whatever to fear; for though we may be sometimes cast down and discomforted, we shall assuredly at last put to flight all our adversaries, for we are the sons of God even now.

  91. We have nothing whatever to do with our salvation; God has done it all.

  92. There is no way to heaven, whatever thy hopes may be, but through Christ: there is no way to the gates of pearl but through the bleeding side of Jesus.

  93. The publisher's concern in that particular is a double one--that whatever of that nature is published in his newspaper should be true or privileged and that there should be clear proof of the truth or privilege.

  94. The first picture shows the arrival of the Editor, a man of desperate mien, dark as a thunder cloud, ready to be affrighted by nothing, with instant disapproval of whatever he disapproves breaking through his alert, intellectual features.

  95. Portugal has decided to expel German sympathisers of whatever nationality.

  96. My friendship with Cosimo wouldn't be one bit less beautiful whatever the 'conclusions' were people drew.

  97. Whatever measure of contempt was in her she kept for Cosimo.

  98. You said yourself that the 'Novum' was going to be a sort of generalissimo, and these the brigades of whatever they're called.

  99. The years they had spent together now seemed as nothing compared with these last eternal days before the new order, whatever it was to be, should begin.

  100. I don't know whatever made me think there was anything in them," he said complacently one night within about ten days of Christmas.

  101. At whatever cost we have to avoid false positions.

  102. Would it have made any difference whatever she had done?

  103. Oh, Dorothy would have had no difficulty whatever in selling herself two or three times over!

  104. If Dorothy's fashion-drawing or advertisements or whatever it was could not provide ten pounds, then absolutely the only thing that could be said for these absurdities disappeared.

  105. And they'd be able to do whatever they liked with it--reproduce it or anything?

  106. They could have done--whatever they were doing--under her eyes had they wished, but they had stolen off together instead.

  107. Jellies' husband, as they could see from where they leaned over the rail, was already a little drunk on champagne; there was no doubt whatever that he would presently be quite drunk on beer.

  108. But whatever the first expression of her face had been, it hardly lasted for a quarter of an instant.

  109. It seemed as if Croziers' carrier, in fetching away those twenty-eight pictures, had taken away also whatever talent had gone to their painting.

  110. But really, Lennie, do you think you could get us a ticket or whatever it is?

  111. It might bring the alligator-zills, or whatever they call these Cuban cops, about our ears, mightn't it?

  112. Well, whatever it is, I can't walk till I get some of these stickers out of me.

  113. Seems like everyone in the place is goin' ter enlist, or whatever you call it," he remarked.

  114. We're in the United States navy for four years, and whatever happens, we've got to stick to it.

  115. We're blocking the views of the Cubanolas, or whatever they call themselves; but before you go, look at the two center convicts in that picture.

  116. I'm full of that tack-tus, or whatever you call it.

  117. They had lain awake most of the night in the room they shared, discussing the future, and had decided to abide by the decision they had so hastily arrived at, whatever might happen.

  118. That I didn't like that part about 'not grumbling whatever we are told to do.

  119. And he must be able to devote himself pretty steadily to her whims, subordinate himself good-naturedly, and obtain for her whatever she might fancy for the time.

  120. Whatever happened--reckless, with a philosophy that did not embrace the morrow.

  121. First and second battalions and many old regiments are joined to other old corps which formerly had nothing whatever to do with the county or province from which they now derive their title.

  122. In thee compassion is, in thee is pity, In thee magnificence; in thee unites Whatever of goodness is in any creature.

  123. Around the fosse they go by thousands, piercing with their arrows whatever spirit wrenches itself out of the blood farther than its guilt has allotted for it.

  124. This self-complacency makes us forget that whatever truth there may be in the great theory of evolution, certainly the validity of the theory is not confirmed by the intellectual history of the human race.

  125. Whatever be the answer "Cato's taking his own life rather than renounce liberty is symbolical of the soul, destroying all selfishness that it may attain the light and freedom of spiritual life.

  126. There was a wide range of thoroughness of compliance with the request; for example, cost estimates ranged from the most meticulous analyses down to one case where no cost information whatever was supplied.

  127. Following this, other users load their jobs, getting whatever memory and I/O facilities remain.

  128. In a batch system, whatever analysis is needed during data acquisition must be somehow tied to the processing of events.

  129. But in whatever she did she left the stamp of a talent like no other, and of a personality disdainful of literary environment.

  130. He was by nature a bit of a disciplinarian, and the effect was from him as well as in me; I dare say he let me feel whatever difference there was as helplessly as I felt it.

  131. The Nation, which was destined to chastise rather than nurture our young literature, had still six years of dreamless potentiality before it; and the Nation was always more Bostonian than New-Yorkish by nature, whatever it was by nativity.

  132. Whatever you may devise, I shall thank heaven for the burthen as a merciful atonement for my sin.

  133. Whatever might happen by-and-by, the neophyte and his affinity must be brought close together again for a while, and to that end Pharamond loyally exerted all his influence.

  134. It was treating him like a schoolboy, and, whatever he should elect to do to show his independence would be justifiable, however unpalatable it might prove to the self-elected schoolmistress.

  135. Trying to argue down her fears, she made it the more evident to herself that whatever came of it, duty pointed in the direction of Lorge.

  136. Whatever his own disputes with her, he would not have her snubbed by the local magnates, or himself enter their doors on sufferance while she was excluded from them.

  137. From Lushington's action no inference whatever is to be drawn, for it was the only action which the rules of professional etiquette left open to him; and the Byron question is not: On what evidence did Lady Byron act as she did?

  138. So, in a day and a night, they made him famous, and ensured that, whatever else his career might be, it should be spectacular.

  139. In the second place his relations with Miss Clairmont had nothing whatever to do with his separation from Lady Byron, because he did not make Miss Clairmont's acquaintance until after Lady Byron had left him.

  140. There is no reason whatever to suppose that he was really thinking of Mary Chaworth when he wrote verses to the Maid of Athens, or when he gave the most precious of his rings to Mrs. Spencer Smith.

  141. There had been two desperately unhappy marriages, and a shivering and scattering of two sets of household gods; and yet he and she, through whatever misunderstandings and scruples, had failed to set up their new structure on the ruins.

  142. They only knew that, whatever it was, he would say it effectively, and, as has already been remarked, with the air of one who damned the consequences.

  143. How shall a fat boy hope, whatever fires of genius burn within him, to enter the lists against his elders and bear away the belle from county balls?

  144. Moreover, in a country in which most wives as well as most husbands were unfaithful, the fuss made about Lady Byron's grievances, whatever they might be, appeared ridiculous.

  145. Whatever the mountain might be destined to bring forth, at least it should be visibly in labour.

  146. We are really having a very good time, for we do just whatever we want to, and although we are not what you would call dressy, still we are at least clean.

  147. I wear my fur coat most of the time and sometimes my hat, and settle down on a hassock in front of whatever fire there is, to read.

  148. Shurtleff and each one of our workers, who usually work at their own special jobs, pitched in to sort out bundles of clothes, or carry yards and yards of worsted, or do whatever turned up.


  149. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whatever" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    whatever comes; whatever cost; whatever else; whatever form; whatever happened; whatever happens; whatever kind; whatever may; whatever might; whatever part; whatever rank; whatever the; whatever their; whatever they; whatever thou; whatever you