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Example sentences for "when only"

  • When only six or seven years of age, he was discovered on the roof of the barn, much to the consternation of his father and mother, fixing up a windmill of his own construction.

  • When only four or five years of age, he was often seen dividing circles and squares.

  • The surveys of numerous collieries which he was called upon to make, gave him further experience; and already, when only twenty-three years of age, he contemplated making a model of the strata of the earth.

  • In 1809 Byron, when only twenty-one years of age, started on a tour of Europe and the Orient.

  • He died miserably in 1796, when only thirty-seven years old.

  • When only ten he wrote 'The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe,' and at twelve 'Constantia and Philetus.

  • When only twenty, he lost his father in remarkable circumstances.

  • He was very early distinguished as a prodigy of boyish acquirement, and was entered, when only eleven, of Harthall, now Hertford College.

  • When only twenty-two he was already a master-painter in the Antwerp Guild.

  • When only are we keeping God's commandments?

  • When only shall we be completely victorious over them?

  • When only and by whom dare a divorce be obtained?

  • A lad of so much enterprise was evidently designed to make some figure in the world, and we accordingly find him, when only twenty-six years old, contesting the county in 1784.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when only" 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:
    class interests; hard sauce; longer alone; when behold; when called; when considered; when cool; when dissolved; when eaten; when formed; when informed; when intelligence; when last; when life; when melted; when one; when sufficiently; when the water boils; when there; when they had gone; when they have been; when thus; when touched; when twenty; when viewed; when walking