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Example sentences for "whole being"

  • She slowly raised her eyes, and looked at Goethe so reproachfully, so anxiously, that a tremor of joy and emotion ran through his whole being.

  • I said to her, "You are the depository of my whole being, act so that I may be happy.

  • For me, I was too much charmed to think of eating; my heart began to imbibe a delicious sensation, which engrossed my whole being, and left no room for other objects.

  • A new life permeated Frank's whole being at these last words; his cheeks flushed and his languid eyes brightened up.

  • My heart sought rest and quiet; my soul was beginning to shake off the torpor that had enchained it; taking in, almost unconsciously, silent influences that pervaded my whole being.

  • In the parlor, so near that the jangling of untuned wires sets my whole being on edge, her daughter is playing the piano as she sings, I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls.

  • My whole being is melted with the woe of them--but I can do them anywhere--anyhow.

  • I discover that my whole being is reduced to the great elemental, primitive instinct of self-preservation.

  • And all the time my whole being is still restless with the storms that raged in it last spring!

  • One's whole being is lowered by contact with that incessant animal appeal.

  • My other love affairs lasted a longer or shorter time, their memories were pleasant sometimes, a little sad at others, or distasteful as the case might be, but never absorbed my whole being.

  • This time it is not a mere love intrigue, but a feeling that absorbs my whole being.

  • This simplicity seems to penetrate into my whole being, and acts more soothingly upon my nerves than a sleeping draught.

  • Should I submit and give myself up to that which does not engage my whole being?

  • I stand speechless, in a magical atmosphere that wraps my whole being, scarcely daring to lift my eyes.

  • It is not a moral restraint that I have over myself, but it is such a change, a conversion of my whole being, that I have no need of restraint.

  • My whole being is devoted to you, madame.

  • I think you changeable; in fact--in fact, I dread this deep affection which fills my whole being.

  • PART III I do not know what I felt, or whence those fears came which so suddenly assailed me, and took possession of my whole being like a flight of poisoned arrows.

  • The terror which he knew how to cause me has transformed my whole being.

  • My whole Being rejoiced, for Heaven seemed to be showing me, through the atrocious Cardillac, the way to escape from the hell in which I was being tortured.

  • Its holy influence pervaded my whole being; a sound not of earth, but distinctly audible to both myself and the sister who was in the same room!

  • I arose from my knees with a sweet sense of complete deliverance, and such joy and perfect peace filled my whole being that I couldn't praise Jesus enough for it.

  • My whole being underwent a change, as if something had slid aside in my inner self, or as if a curtain or tissue of my brain was rent in two.

  • My whole being was at this moment in the highest degree of torture, I had pains in my arms, and could hardly bear to hold them in the usual way.

  • I tried afresh to shake myself out of this strange daze that enveloped my whole being like a mist.

  • Oh, how these words thrilled my whole being!

  • With this thrill through my whole being, I resorted to prayer for their restoration to health, if consistent with the divine will.

  • Never can I forget the thrill of joy that ran through my whole being as I laid aside that little book.

  • Its chink to my ear is sweetest harmony, its touch thrills through my whole being.

  • His mother divined nothing of the agony which, like a wild tornado, was desolating the fair face of her child's whole being.

  • A sigh, which was rather a sob, indicative of the inner throes that were racking the statesman's whole being, burst from his heart.

  • And my whole being felt a sensation of satiety and delicious torpor.

  • My whole being is now plunged into a frenzy of fear, and while in my ears the distant knell resounds, around the bed I see the light of a thousand funeral tapers trembling under the vibrations of a de profundis prayer.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole being" 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:
    good fellowship; left guard; rather large; short laugh; various shades; whole allspice; whole day; whole force; whole generation; whole heap; whole heart; whole host; whole hour; whole life; whole lifetime; whole milk; whole month; whole number; whole passel; whole story; whole week; whole world; whole year; wholesale prices; wholesome food; will assuredly