Hjalte,' she cried, 'why dost thou not ask me what I would answer if Olaf Haraldsson asked for my hand?
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity?
If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to me?
His next neighbour said to him, 'Why dost thou not eat of what is before thee?
Then he sat down, but she abode standing and I said to her, "O my lady, why dost thou not sit?
At this she bowed her head and pondered so long, that the Khalif thought her at a loss for an answer and the astronomer said to her, 'Why dost thou not speak?
And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest?
And, O king, why dost thou not return an answer to thy beloved wife bewailing and bereft of sense, although thou lovest her, being loved in return?
Why dost thou not, therefore, thyself being equal to a Regent of the Universe, observe virtue?
Having inspired me with trustfulness and having given me my life, why dost thou not approach me at a time when friends should enjoy the sweetness of friendship?
Alas, why dost thou not awake to a correct apprehension of these?
Indeed when thy life is being incessantly shortened, why dost thou not run to preceptors (for learning the means of rescue)?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "why dost thou not" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
