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Example sentences for "wondered whether"

  • The dream I had had concerning her during my illness often recurred to me, and I wondered whether it really was a revelation or only an ordinary dream to be accounted for by the state of my health at the time.

  • I wondered whether any of them inherited his genius.

  • And as I mused in phantasy, forgetting half my woe, I wondered whether elves or ghouls their revels held below.

  • As he settled to the familiar table in the crowded, ill-lit room, he wondered whether he would be of the lucky number for whom the Government service would find openings at the end of the war.

  • Perhaps it was her fault that they had established no spiritual contact at dinner; she had conceivably lost interest in him, and he wondered whether he was sufficiently interested to make sure.

  • Once or twice I wondered whether I should get home alive; and, on my soul, I prayed the whole time that I shouldn't.

  • Although she tried to speak calmly he heard the tiny thrill of hope in her voice, and in his soul he wondered whether, after all, he were not acting cruelly in speaking thus.

  • But as he went back to the drawing-room, eager to tell Mrs. Carstairs and Sir Richard of the revelations so innocently made by Cherry, he wondered whether at last the mystery were really within reach of a solution.

  • When I grew up and went into the City, and met other young fellows and heard their way of talking, I wondered whether my father and his friends were not a little queer in their heads; but I know better now.

  • He could not have expressed his emotion, but he wondered whether he would ever find the key, and something told him that before she could speak to him his own lips must be unclosed.

  • All the time I wondered whether he would end by knocking me senseless so that he might search my boots at his ease.

  • I wondered whether Mr. Jermyn was on board of her.

  • I wondered whether I had come to the right square.

  • This was an ancient custom and he was now the head of the family; but as he looked at the rows of solemn faces, he wondered whether he could win the love his predecessor had won.

  • Everything was as usual; it was difficult to imagine any cause for alarm; and he wondered whether he had been needlessly disturbed.

  • For all that, when he left Euston at midnight, a reaction had begun, and he wondered whether he had made the pace too hot.

  • I wondered whether I should tell her of the commission he had entrusted to me, but decided that, for the present, I would say nothing.

  • I wondered whether I should confide in Lucie and explain what my love had told me, or whether it was best to allow her, at least for the present, to remain in ignorance?

  • I wondered whether it were judicious to tell her one fact.

  • He had prosecuted most diligent search, and having ascertained from the registrar of deaths that an Italian had died there he wondered whether it might not be his friend.

  • He wondered whether he should like that, and reflected that it would be an aspect to study, like everything else.

  • I wondered, as I looked through them, whether I was losing all my radicalism; and then I wondered whether, after all, I had any to lose.

  • After that time Slingsby had seemed to regard me with rather a special favour; I wondered whether it was because I had not talked of it.

  • I wondered whether he was recalling that other superstition of Fred's, that little episode a night or two before he died.

  • Wondered whether he should be seeing King always?

  • I wondered as I looked through them whether I was losing all my radicalism; and then I wondered whether, after all, I had any to lose.

  • I wondered whether ClĂ©mence Isaure had been anything like this terrible Toulousaine of to-day, who would have been a capital figure-head for a floral game.

  • When, however, my host at last left me, I felt the tension relax to such an extent that I wondered whether by any chance he, and not I, was the object of so much curiosity.

  • I wondered whether he could compose only under the spur of hunger and loneliness, and whether his talent might not subside with his despair.

  • He wondered whether he might have been breathing audibly when the intruder thrust her head between his curtains.

  • When at length I laid down the sheets I wondered whether it were imagination, or the uncomfortable result of memories of conversations I had had with him.

  • I wondered whether it were because of the fact that I was his father--though a most inadequate one--that I thought them somewhat unusual.

  • I wondered whether he had heard anything.

  • As he rode once through Cuckfield, and caught a glimpse of the woods above Overfield, glorious in their autumn livery, he wondered whether he would ever find himself at home there again.

  • As regards the second alternative he wondered whether it was possible to shift responsibility in that manner; as regards the third, he knew that he had very little capability in any case of foreseeing the course that events would take.

  • He wondered whether he had better show it to Cromwell; it might irritate him or not, according to his mood.

  • He wondered whether there was any firing now; he wondered whether he would find things in the foreign quarter as he had left them.

  • Then as he sat with his face and bared chest bathed in the juice, he wondered whether he could attempt another.

  • Rubbing his tired legs, he wondered whether he dared enter a village to find out exactly where he was.

  • I wondered whether he were cross with Mamma for seeming to doubt his skill, or whether something else was the matter.

  • I wondered whether I should wake Maida, and get her to go with me, but somehow I wasn't in the mood for Maida.

  • I was just going in to wake Mamma," I replied, and I wondered whether, if I jumped up suddenly, his end of the bench would go down and tilt him into the river.


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