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Example sentences for "why the"

  • I know not, sir, why the gentlemen, who are thus indecently attacked, have suffered such reproaches without censure, and without reply.

  • Why the Dickenson do you want to work on a weekly paper?

  • That's why the Gate is getting a little bit more known than it used to be.

  • I will hasten as fast as you," said the youth; "but tell me why the rearward of such an army should be as dangerous as the van?

  • Secondly, Give a reason, why the resemblance of our broken and interrupted perceptions induces us to attribute an identity to them.

  • In fact, it is the mill in the well-known fairy tale, Why the Sea is Salt.

  • Why the name of Cronus should mean 'horned,' when he is never represented with horns, it is hard to say.

  • That is why the supply of trained aunts is always so precarious.

  • No one has ever really reformed a washerwoman, and that is why the competition is so keen.

  • That is why the stage, with all its efforts, can never be as artificial as life; even in an Ibsen drama one must reveal to the audience things that one would suppress before the children or servants.

  • That is why the age of Empires is passing away.

  • That is why the majority of mankind has set itself to overcome the unholy urgings of ambition, the pleasure of selfish and revengeful purposes, and the deeply-implanted delight in cruelty and unkindness.

  • He discovers the motives which dictate their peculiarities of choice; why the Cerceris, for instance, among all the victims at its disposal, never selects anything but the Buprestis and the weevils.

  • Edward could never understand this; or why the Universe, so long static and immutable, had suddenly begun to move.

  • That's why the government is sending me here, to start you to thinking, to remind you that it is you soldiers who will have to take charge of this country and run it after the war is over.

  • Will you kindly explain, if you can, why the town of Grenoble has ignored us?

  • It was a very common Enquiry among the Ancients why the Number of excellent Orators, under all the Encouragements the most flourishing States could give them, fell so far short of the Number of those who excelled in all other Sciences.

  • Why the Sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble Jaws To cast thee up again?

  • Why the devil do we stand here hesitating?

  • This is why the well-disposed man can hardly esteem without at once feeling love for the object.

  • Why the roads, as I think, are scarce passable yet.

  • Kings' dissensions wherefore dread I, Why the fortune of the fight?

  • Or why the Noble Antoninus in some sence doth call the soul it self a Rhombus?

  • And that is why the light of the Moon is so cool, and so bright, and so beautiful to this very day.

  • And that is why the Wind in the hot weather is so disagreeable.

  • And that is why the Sun is so hot even to-day.

  • All the day the boy wondered why the Mice-people should not be harmed; and just at dark he came for me to accompany him to War Eagle's lodge.

  • I want to know," said he, "why the people of Tadmor are weak-eyed?

  • Therefore, one should always pray with the community, and this is why the text (Ps.

  • And that is why the Sun is so hot to this day.

  • And that is why the Moon's light is so soft and cool and beautiful even to this day.

  • And that is why the Wind in the hot weather is still so disagreeable.


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