Use whether in a sentence
Sentences starting with whether
- Whether right or wrong, her feeling was strong on this point. [14]
- Whether they were written with smiles or not, you can guess better after you have read them. [6]
- Whether Dudley Veneer would ever find a breathing image near enough to his ideal one, to fill the desolate chamber of his heart, or not, was very doubtful. [6]
- Whether these anticipations will ever be realized, and whether increased leisure will make us all happy, is a subject of importance; but it is secondary, and in a manner incidental, to another and deeper matter, which may be defined as the responsibility of attractiveness. [4]
- Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. [7]
- Whether the questions which assail my young friend have risen in my reader's mind or not, he knows perfectly well that nobody can keep such questions from springing up in every young mind of any force or honesty. [6]
- Whether primeval man, when he possessed but few arts, and those of the rudest kind, and when his power of language was extremely imperfect, would have deserved to be called man, must depend on the definition which we employ. [1]
- Whether Dolgorukov and Weyrother, or Kutuzov, Langeron, and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were right--he did not know. [2]
- Whether this idealism were innate or the result of such romances as I had read I cannot say.... [9]
- Whether Doctor Melchior were holding converse with the broom, or the peruke, or a spectre whom he, and no one else could see Frau Schimmel could not tell, but she had then recovered herself sufficiently to be able to listen attentively. [10]
Sentences containing whether two or more times
- Somebody has been writing to me about "Oatmeal and Literature," and somebody else wants to know whether I have found character influenced by diet; also whether, in my opinion, oatmeal is preferable to pie as an American national food. [6]
- Perhaps it is worth while, in view of certain recent discussions, and especially of some free criticisms of this country, to consider whether there is any intention of progress in this world, and whether that intention is discoverable in the age in which we live. [4]
- It isn't the 'work exactly, but the oversight, the details; and the fact is that I want somebody near me whom I can trust, whether I'm here or whether I'm away. [4]
- I had often wondered in an indolent way whether the barbers did that, or whether it was the boss. [5]
- He was wondering whether, in this primitive place, such a mind and nature would be the wiser for reading; whether it were not better to be without a mental aspiration, which might set up false standards. [11]
- Charley was wondering whether, after all, she would have the courage to keep her word, whether spiritual terror would surmount the moral attitude of honour. [11]
- May I ask whether you only feel his personality repugnant to you, or whether actual circumstances have given rise to your aversion--nay, if I have judged rightly, to a very bitterly hostile feeling against him? [10]
- No one knew whether this was the real cloudy sky, or whether another, colorless awning closed them in. [10]
- Do you know whether this gentleman is Charles Wrexell Allen, or whether he is the author? [9]
- I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. [6]
More example sentences with the word whether in them
- You can judge yourselves whether the tottering reason ever recovered its throne. [5]
- Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
- Wishing to make your visit here as pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive. [7]
- I doubt whether your present position is more painful to you than to myself. [7]
- You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
- I submit for your especial consideration whether our Indian system shall not be remodeled. [7]
- Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
- With regard to your alliance with the Arabs, and whether it becomes you--being what you are--to take service with them, we will discuss it at a future day. [10]
- When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
- When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
- I appeal to you whether he did not say it was a question for the Supreme Court? [7]
- It is for you to say whether that can be done. [7]
- I shall want you to come along with us, Mr Brass, and the--' he looked at Miss Sally as if in some doubt whether she might not be a griffin or other fabulous monster. [12]
- I suppose that you sent for me to know whether Mr. Gaylord has employed me to lobby for his bill. [9]
- The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
- Let me remind you of it, whether you have read it or not. [6]
- I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a nine-penny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. [6]
- We civilians, as you know, have a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. [2]
- To ask whether you are of knightly lineage would be useless trouble, and should it come to a genuine sword-dance. [10]
- I will see you again at court if not before--when and where we will settle the question whether you or the widow shall have the land. [7]
- They had not yet decided whether to demand a full pardon or only a mild sentence for the man who had wounded the "King of kings," the son of the sovereign. [10]
- For over twenty years I had carried him in my mind, wondering whether, and when, I should-make use of him. [11]
- Mr. Davis's pamphlet would hardly be complete without a mysterious letter from an unnamed writer, whether a faithless friend, a disguised enemy, a secret emissary, or an injudicious alarmist, we have no means of judging for ourselves. [6]
- He said he would give us any kind of fruit we liked, whether it was in season or not. [5]
- She said she would do her best by him, because, whether he was good, bad, or indifferent, he was the Lord's, and nothing that was the Lord's was a thing to be neglected. [5]
- The same conclusion would be reached, whether we were to consider him in his private relations or in his career as a man of letters. [4]
- Well, now she would ask him plainly whether he had placed it on the rotunda for her or for her sister, and let him see she was not pleased. [10]
- Moreover, a magistrate won't be able to force a man to work for a master a whole year on a stretch whether the man wants to or not. [5]
- I have been wondering whether we shall be as happy when the world discovers that you are great. [9]
- Mr Swiveller was wondering whether this might be another Miss Brass, twin sister to the Dragon, when there came a rapping of knuckles at the office door. [12]
- I was merely wondering whether any event or series of events had transformed a mere knowledge of these conditions into feeling. [9]
- Those are truly wonderful diamonds, whether they exist or not; and yet they are of but little importance by comparison with the one wherewith the Boer wagoner chocked his wheel on that steep grade as heretofore referred to. [5]
- And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
- I used to wonder whether Margaret was satisfied with her husband's reputation. [4]
- I began to wonder how I might warn Krebs, and presently decided to send him a note when he should have finished speaking--but I couldn't make up my mind whether to put my name to the note or not. [9]
- To-day the good woman could not quite make up her mind whether it would be wiser to warn Dada against Marcus and desire her to repel any advances he might attempt to make, or to let bygones be bygones. [10]
- That old Silence Withers would do just as her minister told her,--even chance whether she gives it to the Parson-factory, or marries Bellamy Stoker, and gives it to him after his wife's dead. [6]
- While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
- They were fellow-creatures with whom one did not naturally enter into active sympathy, and the principal point of interest about the fiacre and its arrangements was whether the horse was fondest of trotting or of walking. [6]
- It lies wholly with the customer whether he will injure himself by means of either, or will derive from them the benefits which they will afford him if he uses their possibilities judiciously. [5]
- Here we are with the convention only two days off, and we don't know where we stand, how many delegates we've got, or whether this upstart at Leith is going to be nominated over our heads. [9]
- His eyes, wet with tears of grateful joy, sought the young man's, and, though he had just warned him plainly enough against courting his daughter, his sparkling gaze now asked whether he had ever met an equally bewitching marvel. [10]
- It rested entirely with jungfrau Blomberg to decide whether she would accept it at so late an hour. [10]
- Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions, it is fair to call it an imposition; whether an expressly fraudulent contrivance or not, some might be ready to question. [6]
- Now it lies with each of you to show whether or no he is faithful to me. [10]
- They know whether with all their leisure they get placidity of mind and the real rest which the older nations have learned to enjoy. [4]
- And the same with a king's son; it don't make no difference whether he's a natural one or an unnatural one. [5]
- He mopped it with a dark-red handkerchief, stared at everything in the place save the gentleman in front of him, and wondered whether he had ever in his life been so uncomfortable. [9]
- He now suddenly wished that brighter light might dispel the gloom which just now he had found so restful; for the lady Euryale's demeanor would show him whether Melissa were still a virtuous maiden. [10]
- We do not wish to attach too much importance to this movement, but rather to suggest to a continent yearning for culture in letters and in speech whether it may not be carried too far. [4]
- Look them over, will you, and see whether there is anything there worth saving. [6]
- Our council, which will meet in a few days, can only determine how, and not whether we shall fulfil his command. [10]
- I never knew--never will know whether or not she was a wife. [13]
- To-morrow (Tuesday) I will add a P. S. if I've any to add; but, whether or no, I must mail this to morrow, for the mail steamer goes next day. [5]
- I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
- He has a whole lot of assurance, an air of knowing what he's talking about, and apparently he doesn't give a continental whether he's popular or not. [9]
- He saw the whole danger, and drew up his powerful form as if to prove whether it were an equal match for such a foe. [10]
- But, after all, who knows whether the good luck we envy others is great or small? [10]
- Then an ointment-mixer, who had heard that I was your servant, made that godless Bubares ask me whether I could cure diseases of the eye too. [10]
- He saw that while Gabrielle lived, a dead misfortune would be ever crouching at the threshold of Freeman's home, that whether the woman agreed to be silent or not, the hurt to Clare would remain the same. [11]
- The only question which intruded itself was, whether he might not have preferred the company of one to that of two. [6]
- And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
- And Hodder wondered whether, in the swift onward roll of things, the time would come when this, too, would have been deemed ephemeral. [9]
- I don't know whether you've told me the truth or not, but I think you have. [11]
- I don't know whether you're a judge of pigs or no. [6]
- I don't know whether you'll agree with me, but I think this is rather nice. [8]
- It is expensive whether you win or lose, and it is murderously expensive when you do lose. [11]
- I don't know whether you were ever in Brussels. [6]
- I don't know whether you were ever at an English watering-place, but if you have not been, you have missed the best opportunity of studying English oddities, both moral and physical. [4]
- May I ask whether you propose to do me the honor of reporting this visit and the conversation we have had, for the columns of the newspaper with which you are connected? [6]
- I don't know whether you know it, but I know him to be as honorable a man as there is in the world. [7]
- The question is, whether you knew that I am his mother, and it was not concealed from you. [10]
- I know not whether you have seen the notice in the Leader; I read it just after concluding the book. [14]
- I therefore ask whether you have it ready. [10]
- I don't know whether you can see these things as clearly as I do. [6]
- A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. [7]
- I don't know whether we spoke Persian or Syrian, but we said the most charming things to one another. [10]
- Don't know yet whether we can get it or not. [5]
- No one knows whether Uncle Jim could hear the cries from the torture- chamber, but, after standing for a time mumbling to himself, he wrapped himself in a heavy coat, tied a muffler about his face, and went out. [11]
- The question is, whether toleration is anything but indifference. [4]
- I knew not whether to trust Gabord or no. [11]
- I hardly knew whether to smile or shudder. [5]
- I knew not whether to pity or to be angry, such a strange blending she seemed of former pride and arrogance and later suffering. [9]
- I don't know whether to laugh or shudder. [6]
- Thou art safe whether to go or to stay. [11]
- Gifted hardly knew whether to be pleased with her sympathy, or vexed that she did not take his leaving more to heart. [6]
- It was doubtful whether those whom they expected would return that night, and the Roman soldiers who were loyal to Antony had gone with him to the war. [10]
- I don't know whether this weird and astounding spectacle most suggested heaven, or hell. [5]
- Austen merely inquired whether this was not when they had left the station at North Mercer, two miles away. [9]
- It is doubtful whether this should be considered a case of puerperal fever. [3]
- I don't know whether this caused him, Hosea, pain. [10]
- I don't know whether they were disappointed. [5]
- I don't care whether they want to swear or not, they don't want to be on their good behavior. [6]
- It matters not whether they treat of middle-class life, of low, slum life, or of drawing-room life and lords and ladies; they are equally flat and dreary. [4]
- They never knew whether they had deceived the janitor or not; as they came in a coupe, they hoped they had. [8]
- Ask Jake there whether they can't row a mild in double-quick time,--he knows all abaout it. [6]
- You don't know whether they are clean or not, because you can't see. [5]
- It maybe questioned whether these views have not interfered with the sound training of certain young persons, sons of clergymen and others. [6]
- I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic. [4]
- And Honora wondered whether there were not an element of truth in what Mr. Dewing said of their hostess--that she thought nothing immoral except novels with happy endings. [9]
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