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Example sentences for "wondered what"

  • I wondered what on earth he was driving at.

  • For the first time I wondered what would be if Keddie Bingy was dead.

  • I wondered what information he drew from the strange transparencies; the X-rays told me nothing at all.

  • I wondered what my family would undergo during the harsh period following my death; I pondered whether I would see earthly lives when I no longer was part of the world.

  • I wondered what sort of fate I had accepted for myself; I wondered what joy could possibly exist for these people, what hardships they had endured, what expectations they possessed.

  • I wondered what they, were about to say, for it seemed that my warning came just in time for them.

  • It was all coming back, as one thing or another brought it to his mind; and I wondered what should be when he knew that the dream was the truth.

  • He laughed and went on directing his men; but knowing what I knew, I wondered what it all might mean, for there was one wedding that I could not help thinking of.

  • But this evening as I sat here gazing upon the beautiful handiwork of God, I wondered what could be awaiting us in that brighter and better world beyond the grave.

  • Although Edwin had been in the home a number of times and had noticed Frank's wife, he had never talked with her, and as he gazed through the open window, he wondered what kind of person she could be.

  • But he had never been away from the poorhouse farm, and when they passed from the driveway on to the public highway, he remembered that the children had been forbidden to leave the place, and he wondered what it all meant.

  • She had not looked at him once since they sat down; and he wondered what on earth she had been thinking about all the time.

  • He stood in front of the loggia, biting his fingers, a kind of nineteenth-century buccaneer, and I wondered what he was doing in this galley.

  • And he wondered what on earth Mrs. Soames had been saying, what on earth she had been telling him in the railway carriage.

  • I wondered what Mr. Colin Camber's occupation might be, and somewhat, too, I wondered why his name was unfamiliar to me.

  • I wondered what discoveries he would make.

  • Jack returned to the clerk's counter to mail his letter, and found that gentleman looking at him as if he wondered what sort of a boy he might be.

  • I saw you hammering and filing, and I wondered what you'd accomplished.

  • But he wondered what was in the envelope.

  • He wondered what in the world his grandfather wished to see him about, in this very private fashion.

  • His passenger, to whom the old schoolbook quatrain was entirely unknown, wondered what on earth the man was talking about.

  • I wondered what Johnston, who conferred with his companions, would do.

  • The next morning I noticed that Alice's eyes seemed heavy, and I wondered what could be the reason.

  • I wondered what he meant; if he meant anything at all.

  • I wondered what would be his mental condition when he found himself in the street.

  • I wondered what my feelings would be if I knew that I was being measured for my coffin.

  • I wondered what he would say if he knew all.

  • Supposing these gold discoveries were as great and as extensive as we had reason to expect they would be, we wondered what would be arranged for easier entrance and exit.

  • It was a much larger one than he himself was in the habit of using, and he wondered what it did there.

  • I wondered what an abyss of cruelty she must have looked into that in horror she refused to live.

  • As evening drew on smoke rose from the proximity of the homesteads, and we wondered what it could be, for there are never any trees near the houses.

  • I wondered what he intended to do, and was not prepared for the surprises that were to follow.

  • I wondered what Mr. Allen Price would think when he discovered I was nowhere to be found.

  • I wondered what could be the nature of Mr. Woodward's accusation against me, but failed to solve the mystery.

  • But as I crept to my bed at last, the clocks striking two, and my head athrob with excitement and gratitude, I wondered what was in my lady's mind.

  • I wondered what he meant; I wondered what he suspected, still more, what he knew.

  • He wondered what he should say to her when they met.

  • He wondered what excuse he should make for breaking off the appointment, and then decided that he would not make any.

  • And then there were those periods of appalling misery when, having ended a chapter, he wondered what he should make his people do next.


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