I would run the risk often now, to obtain the wherewithal to pay for a sumptuous repast.
But the dog has stopped; if we could induce him to follow us, even if we had to use a little force, we could sell him to a dog fancier and get the wherewithal to gnaw a crust.
She looked at him only an instant, but in the glance that she gave him there was the wherewithalto overturn the reason of the most virtuous man; and Léodgard was mad with love already.
He who possessed the secrets of plants and minerals, of fire and light, of the generation of beings, had not the wherewithal to procure himself a decent soutane, nor even a morsel of bread.
If anybody looks as high as your garters, they will see how wretched you are, and the holes in the stockings will let people know that you have not the wherewithal to buy silk to mend them.
I did not like Passano, so I sent him to his family at Genoa, giving him the wherewithal to live till I came for him.
There is the wherewithal to hang your fine husband," he announced in triumph.
You hold the wherewithal to ruin me, and you will use it if I insist upon my husband's rights.
So much the worse for him if he has not the wherewithal to pay for this supplementary salt; he has only to sell his pig and abstain from meat at Christmas.
The goat answered, "Wherewithal should I be satisfied?
But the goat did not behave the better to him, and cried, "Wherewithal should I be satisfied?
The wicked beast answered, "Wherewithal should I be satisfied?
I subsequently disposed of one of my two shirts for what it would fetch; the six florins had melted away, and I wanted the wherewithal to buy dry bread.
I gave my brother the wherewithal for his return journey, and continued my way alone.
The fat lady had warned Johnnie Dax that he was on no account to replenish Chugg’s flask, if he had the wherewithal for replenishment on the premises.
But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.
Inferring that while there is, as a whole, an abundance of banks in a new country, they do not always have the wherewithal to loan.
When this embassy was despatched, Diego Belloso and myself told the king that if he did not give us the lands that he had promised us, we intended to go to Luzon, because we did not now possess the wherewithal with which to maintain ourselves.
We had the wherewithal for brewing tea in our rooms.
The reverse is true of the hunger due to the unsuccess of one's efforts to obtain the wherewithal to get better food and more of it.
But it fell harmless enow, for Kanmakan took all on his buckler and it was waste work, though he did not reply lacking the wherewithal to strike and Sabbah ceased not to smite at him with his sabre, till his arm was weary.
I find that I can answer the fool according to his folly, and leave wherewithal to talk on terms of some quality with the few poor lost and forwandered wise men whom one meets in these parts.
From Vienna, too, I obtained the wherewithal to give me breathing-space in a most curious way.
I had to try to meet cheerfully her demands for the wherewithal to carry out her wishes, and especially to procure the two thousand seven hundred marks she required for the purpose.
Touching a matter which involved a certain outlay in the winter of 1861, he laughingly said to me: "I haven't the wherewithal to pay for a bottle of whisky and shall have to borrow of Arnold Harris the wherewithal to take me home.
Those metals, when the Spartans had got wherewithal to purchase them, broke through all the barriers which the laws of Lycurgus opposed to their entrance into Lacedaemon.
A country that has wherewithal to buy wine, will always get the wine which it has occasion for; and a country that has wherewithal to buy gold and silver, will never be in want of those metals.
Few people wanted money who hadwherewithal to pay for it.
As a country which has wherewithal to buy tobacco will never be long in want of it, so neither will one be long in want of gold and silver which has wherewithal to purchase those metals.
Sober men, whose projects have been disproportioned to their capitals, are as likely to have neither wherewithal to buy money, nor credit to borrow it, as prodigals, whose expense has been disproportioned to their revenue.
If, not withstanding all this, gold and silver should at any time fall short in a country which has wherewithal to purchase them, there are more expedients for supplying their place, than that of almost any other commodity.
It seldom happens that the person who tills the ground has wherewithalto maintain himself till he reaps the harvest.
Many people wanted it, who had neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it; and because the debtors found it difficult to borrow, the creditors found it difficult to get payment.
Money, like wine, must always be scarce with those who have neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it.
Finding close at hand the wherewithal to build her nest, the Leaf-cutter went no further afield.
After destruction, let us turn to construction; and perhaps we shall find thewherewithal to compensate us for an illusion lost.
Besides, there is not enough of it yet: to collect the wherewithal for that round loaf of hers, the Bee will have to make repeated journeys.
Will it forgo the delight of hatching its brood because it has not the wherewithal to settle its family in the orthodox fashion?
This is very easy in our society, for the good reason that the towns and villages swarm with workers who have not the wherewithal to live for a month, or even a fortnight.
Before satisfying needs you must create the wherewithal to satisfy them.
I believe he would often be without the wherewithal to live were it not for his mother, whom he supports, and who does him the kindness to need something to live on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wherewithal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
