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Example sentences for "why did"

  • Why did he persist in bearing alone his great misfortune?

  • I faced him with a revolver in my hand: why did I not present it and fire?

  • Oh my dearest, why did we leave our dear little room?

  • I have held these letters in my hands, I have read them; Claudine particularly wished me to keep them, why did I not do so?

  • Why did he preach what he did not believe, we asked?

  • Why did he go back to the Bertaux now that Monsieur Rouault was cured and that these folks hadn't paid yet?

  • Why did he always offer a glass of something to everyone who came?

  • Thus we," he said, "why did we come to know one another?

  • She drew down pensive (why did he go so quick when I?

  • Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noise?

  • Why did he not leave her his best bed if he wished her to snore away the rest of her nights in peace?

  • Why did he not elaborate these calculations to a more precise result?

  • Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the stillflowing tap?

  • Why did Mr Barrett in Clongowes call his pandybat a turkey?

  • Why did he feel that it was not unwatchful?

  • Why did people do that with their two faces?

  • Why did he bring you to this remote, inaccessible part of the world except to save you from further thought of evil?

  • Why did my father say, on that dreadful morning, that if his father was dead, he himself had killed or murdered him?

  • Why did he not find out that horrible man?

  • Alma 20:9 9 And behold, the father of Lamoni said unto him: Why did ye not come to the feast on that great day when I made a feast unto my sons, and unto my people?

  • Why did he not attach his signature to the declaration, which appears to be a hundred years old?

  • Moreover, why did he voluntarily burden himself with the obligation of surrounding a prisoner with such numberless precautions and such sleepless vigilance?

  • However, why did he go away, and send no word?

  • Why did he destroy the wigwams of the settlers, and carry off the scalps even of their weak women and children?

  • But if the great chief meant to be friendly, why did he declare war after smoking the pipe of peace with the Saganaw?

  • Why did we meet at that fatal woman's house?

  • Why did he say then that I paid it to him?

  • Or, meeting so, why did we not part as strangers?

  • Why did it still instinctively clamor for sympathy, like a child's?

  • If Emile knew, why did he not tell Vere what he had told her mother?

  • When they were in her sitting-room she said: "Gaspare, why did you go to bed without coming to say good-night to me?

  • Why did Hermione's heart echo Vere's words with such a strenuous and sudden passion, such a deep desire?

  • But, sir, if Richard Hare was innocent, why did he run away?

  • Why did he, knowing what he was, delude me into becoming his wife?

  • Why did he send me into the other room while he told you what he thought?

  • Why did I often dare death by torment for you there?

  • Why did I find you the best horses in Syria and guide you to the Al-je-bal?

  • Why did I take you into my inn yonder in Beirut when you were the pilgrims Peter and John?

  • Why did a good and loving God allow evil to enter the world?

  • If God really wished to reveal Himself to man, why did He reveal Himself only to one or two obscure tribes, and leave the rest of mankind in darkness?

  • If he is all-powerful, why did He make man so imperfect?

  • Why did I work for you contrive for you--and seek to make this desolation a home for you?

  • Why did I live beside you here in the wilderness?

  • And why," said I, "why did he hang himself?

  • What I dropped in to ask was, why did ye do it, Bob?

  • Jonathan struck the air, as to observe that it beat him, but for the foregoing elucidation: thundering afresh, "Why did you go and drink?

  • Why did we not lie down together and sleep?


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "why did" 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:
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