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Example sentences for "whole life"

  • There is and there always will be labor of this sort, which is worthy of the devotion of a whole life, whatever the man's life may be.

  • I do, when my whole life, is founded on a lie, and when I carefully parade this lie as the truth before others and before myself?

  • For, believe me, general, my whole life will be nothing but such a wandering through scenes of pain if you drive me from the refuge that your love has offered me.

  • She felt how solemn a trust was the happiness of a whole life; and she had that romance of heart, learned from Nature, not in books, which made her believe that there could be no happiness in a marriage without love.

  • In the woe or weal of a whole life, we must decide for ourselves.

  • Let me dedicate my whole life to your service; let me be again your poor Sophy, and my whole business and pleasure be, as it hath been, to please and divert you.

  • Nevertheless, I will ask permission to return for a little while to this, the most interesting of all periods to me, and which exerted such an influence upon my whole life.

  • In my whole life since I have never been able to think of it without shuddering.

  • It would be difficult to imagine anything more radical than the change which three weeks had made in the aspect of my whole life.

  • He do ask L70 for it: I had the vanity to bid him L20; but a better picture I never saw in my whole life; and it is worth going twenty miles to see it.

  • There are words whose sting can remain through a whole life!

  • A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

  • In my whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it was pleasant to speak--i.

  • Out of a whole life of toil there had never been ten krones (10s.

  • Man's whole life passes in doing these things, and his intellect is exhausted by reflecting on them.

  • It often happens," continued she, "that a first fault destroys the prospects of a whole life.

  • I wished to bury it during my whole life in my own bosom, but your brother Maximilian wrested it from me by a violence he repents of now, I am sure.

  • To think that I who have given my whole life to the Republic, I who founded it, who saved it, should be covered with insults in this fashion, and obliged to defend myself against abominable charges!

  • The young Count, too, during those few minutes of anguish, had suffered a whole life of such abominable torture, that after all some little justice was done.

  • Then I travelled over my whole life, just as one travels along a river.

  • My elder sons never loved me, never petted me, scarcely treated me as a mother, but during my whole life I did my duty towards them, and I owe them nothing more after my death.

  • Was it not monstrous that a stranger, an unknown, should thus all at once upset one's whole life, simply because it had pleased him to stare rudely at a woman?

  • It is one of my delights, but not an all-absorbing passion; I should not like to live without it, but could not devote my whole life to it.

  • Only tell me that you love me, surrender your heart to me, and I will bear anything, suffer anything, and will give my whole life to you and serve you to the last breath.

  • I shall never be a great administrator or agriculturist; for though I do not mean to shirk my duties, I could not devote my whole life to them,--for the simple reason that my aspirations aim much higher.

  • I like her very much; she has a sweet face and belongs to those exceptional Poles that do not absorb their husband's whole life, but surrender their own.

  • I have surrendered to you my whole life, because I could not do otherwise.

  • I am now possessed of a soul, and my soul I owe you, my inexpressibly beloved one, and it will ever thank you if you do not make my whole life miserable.

  • So then, let my whole life be directed unrestrainedly toward this one end!

  • Yes; such chances arise, and they alter and direct a man's whole life," he said in summing up.

  • Think, could we pour into that dull brain A man's whole life, joy, thought, and pain!

  • I do not think I ever rose so early before in my whole life; the castle clock has just struck three, and I am already at my writing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole life" 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:
    autograph letter; both small and great; feel about; getting away; increased number; slight noise; whole allspice; whole being; whole body; whole cloves; whole day; whole force; whole frame; whole holiday; whole length; whole life; whole lifetime; whole lot; whole nation; whole number; whole pepper; whole race; whole soul; whole world; wholesale prices; you told