Use whole in a sentence
Sentences starting with whole
- Whole armies of these excellent beings can be spared from our midst and our polls; they will find a delicious climate and a green, kind-hearted people. [5]
- Whole families of the Rostovs' and Bolkonskis' relations sometimes came to Bald Hills with sixteen horses and dozens of servants and stayed for months. [2]
- Whole streets in Port Louis were laid flat--wrecked. [5]
- Whole region for many miles around in terror --people flying from their homes. [5]
- Whole chests are filled with the sketches, programmes, drawings, and verses. [10]
- Whole pages are contributed by such worthies as the Rev. [6]
- Whole ages of abuse and oppression cannot crush the manhood clear out of him. [5]
Sentences ending with whole
- You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world--you and your other half together --Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. [5]
- If you say we shall not control it, because it is only part, the same is true of every other part; and when all the parts are gone, what has become of the whole? [7]
- And so, whilst we do not go beyond general statements, it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists that each is a good half, but an impossible whole. [6]
- I say, then, we are forming an aristocracy; and, transitory as its individual life often is, it maintains itself tolerably, as a whole. [6]
- They suspected it was writing, because those among them who knew how to read Latin and had a smattering of Greek, recognized some of the letters, but they could make nothing out of the result as a whole. [5]
- Yes, Tom's life was varied and pleasant enough, on the whole. [5]
- Every pious soul was rather to implore blessings for his nation; for was not each only a part of the whole? [10]
- Occasionally he tried to piece together the several stages of strange experience and to make a whole. [13]
- Once in place, the workman cools the hot iron; and as it shrinks with a force that seems like a hand-grasp of the Omnipotent, it clasps the fitted fragments of the structure, and compresses them into a single inseparable whole. [6]
- She pointed out the little faults of construction and of language, and then minimized them in comparison with the noble motive and the unity and beauty of the whole. [4]
Short sentences using whole
- That's the whole yarn--what's yourn? [5]
- Yes, sirree, a whole year. [9]
- Tell me everything--the whole truth. [2]
- I demand the whole truth! [10]
- Everybody hears the whole thing. [4]
- This is the whole story. [7]
- That tells the whole story. [5]
- That is the whole story. [5]
- There was the whole story. [11]
- There is my whole story. [11]
Sentences containing whole two or more times
- See, Sheila, I will tell you the whole truth now--aye, the whole absolute truth. [11]
- To tell the whole truth is to bring fresh shame upon Mrs. Llyn and her daughter, and not to tell the whole truth is to take away my one chance of getting out of this trouble. [11]
- Never in my whole life did I put my whole heart in any--episode--of admiration: I own it, for you to think what you will. [11]
- But now they wanted her to sacrifice the very thing that constituted the whole reward for her self-sacrifice and the whole meaning of her life. [2]
- It is not very uncommon to see the upper limbs, or one of them, running away with the whole strength, and, therefore, with the whole beauty, which we should never have noticed, if it had been divided equally between all four extremities. [6]
- You will give up your pay for the whole time you are absent,--portions of days to be caounted as whole days. [6]
- I wish not to be tiresome, but as a friend, a true friend of your whole family, madame--yes, in spite of all, your whole family--I hope you will realize that I must remain here. [11]
- Now this whole thing was a practical joke, and the robbers were personal friends of ours in disguise, and twenty more lay hidden within ten feet of us during the whole operation, listening. [5]
- It would lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. [7]
- They stood on the Egyptian shore, and already the whole train had passed them except the lepers who, following the strangers, were the last of the whole multitude. [10]
More example sentences with the word whole in them
- Yes, I told you--the whole quarter beyond the river, and so it is. [2]
- Let the inquiring youth read the whole Introduction, and he will see what they mean. [3]
- It will make your whole night miserable, and to no good; for we will hope--" "But it isn't a presentiment--it is a fact. [5]
- And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
- And this being your whole duty, return and report to me. [7]
- The receipt of your letter, and the reading of some of the criticisms this morning, have rendered me nervous for the whole day. [4]
- If it fails, young master, you will not live a whole minute after, I promise you that. [5]
- Well, what do you, what do you feel in your soul, your whole soul--shall I live? [2]
- I give it you with my whole heart. [10]
- If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
- And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
- But connected with you two is a third party, a villain of the name of Quilp, the prime mover of the whole diabolical device, who I believe to be worse than either. [12]
- I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
- I will tell you the whole truth, Monsieur. [11]
- Now I'll tell you the whole thing, and you'll understand it. [5]
- Ameni would tell you that ten souls, no, nor a hundred, do not matter when the safety of the whole is in question. [10]
- If you stir--if you so much as wink--for four whole minutes, I'll bite you! [5]
- Each one, if you separate it from the whole and give it a careful examination, is worthy of inspection, nay, of admiration. [10]
- I told you, you remember, that Rosa would have to leave us; we barely missed a scene, I think, if not a whole tragedy, by her going at the right moment. [6]
- The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
- The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
- How is it you have loved a man for a whole year and suddenly... Why, you have only seen him three times! [2]
- I already behold you creating other works to the delight of gods and men; but this Demeter extorts boundless, enthusiastic appreciation; both as a whole, and in detail, it is faultless and worthy of the most ardent praise. [10]
- The best thing you could do would be to burn whole rows of these tenements, they are ideal breeding grounds for disease. [9]
- One man like you can put a whole troop of Egyptians to flight. [10]
- Yes, sah; an' you can jes' call for anything you want, and dish yer whole railroad'll be turned wrong end up an' inside out for to get it for you. [5]
- Darkness surrounded him, yet a bright dazzling light issued from his soul and illuminated his whole being with the warm golden radiance of the sun. [10]
- He was eighty-five years old, and had spent his whole life in battle. [5]
- For a whole year I have dissembled to every one save to that poor mad soul Mathilde, who reads my heart in her wild way, to Voban, and to the rough soldier outside your dungeon. [11]
- For a whole year he was haunted with a desire to disfigure a certain young woman, so that no one would marry her. [5]
- He rode, as ye know, through peril to Pango Dooni, bearing the call for help, and he hath helped to save the whole land from the Red Plague. [11]
- The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
- You got a wrong start, that's the whole trouble. [5]
- True, the hastily written sentences presented some difficulties even for Biberli, but after glancing through the whole letter, he exclaimed with a satisfied smile: "Just as I expected! [10]
- Some wag has writ a verse about it, which was printed, and has set the whole pump-room laughing this morning. [9]
- Perhaps his patient would try to beat him down, and Doctor Benjamin made up his mind to have the whole or nothing. [6]
- He said it would tell my whole fortune if I wanted it to. [5]
- I wish you would tell him from me that when I am governor, I shall make it a point to discuss the whole matter with him, and that he will find in me no foe of corporations. [9]
- She thought it would restore her peace of mind forever if she could succeed in speaking to him for even one brief moment and telling him what a transformation his guilt had wrought in her ardent love and her whole nature. [10]
- Moreover, my conviction would probably deprive him for six whole afternoons of my company, on which he was more or less dependent. [9]
- The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. [7]
- The whole state would have risen to their rescue. [9]
- What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]
- Yet Duke Maurice would have been well worthy of her whole attention, for with what a free, proud step he advanced, while his imperial master used his arm as a support! [10]
- Some of us would have been killed, but--" He then told what had been in his mind, and what might be the outcome-- the killing or capture of the whole group, and safety for all at Salem. [11]
- I concluded I would bunch my whole invoice right here, and not go pricing around any more. [5]
- In Brazil he would behold an immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese; in Chiloe, and other parts of South America, he would behold the whole population consisting of Indians and Spaniards blended in various degrees. [1]
- The only phenomenon worthy the attention of any inquiring mind, in this whole record, I will now describe. [4]
- He would be worthy of hate his whole life long, if he did not seek her once more! [10]
- It was only worth twenty-five dollars--that is, apparently that was its whole cost--but its ultimate cost was inevitably bound to be a good deal more. [5]
- The whole vegetable world, even "the meanest flower that blows," is lovely to contemplate. [6]
- The whole business world, as we know it, is crooked, and if we don't cut other people's throats, they'll cut ours. [9]
- All over the world One Pastor for the whole of them: to wit, her book, Science and Health. [5]
- And the whole world for fifty years has been repeating: "Sublime! [2]
- If the whole world crumbles into ruin, I shall neither marvel nor grieve. [10]
- And not a word would she speak to Chartersea the whole of the dinner, nor look to the right or left of her plate. [9]
- Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
- They comb their wool up to a peak and keep it in position by stiffening it with brown-red clay--half of this tower colored, denotes engagement; the whole of it colored denotes marriage. [5]
- 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]
- There is a wonderful "go" to the whole composition. [5]
- I do not wonder at all that the public support a whole community of pretenders who show the portraits of the patients they have "cured. [6]
- I saw a woman look once as though she could lose the whole world--and her own soul. [11]
- The weal or woe of her whole future depended on the answer she should give to Philostratus. [10]
- Our houses are within a stone's throw, and yet in a whole day, from noon till noon, so old a friend could not find a few minutes to deliver the letters entrusted to him, or to call upon such near neighbors . [10]
- By a hand-shake with their god I had ground-circuited their wire and got their monster battery's whole charge. [5]
- Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
- I was alone with the servant, a bright fire was blazing in the stove, and, obedient to a hasty impulse, I told him to throw the whole contents of the box into the fire. [10]
- Be not angry with the Greek woman, who confesses that she would rather die free as a beggar than live in bondage as a queen, though envied by the whole world. [10]
- The tune, played with precision and in exact time, began to thrill in the hearts of Nicholas and Natasha, arousing in them the same kind of sober mirth as radiated from Anisya Fedorovna's whole being. [2]
- Sometimes I wish with my whole soul I could give it up. [9]
- I loved him with my whole heart, and I knew that he felt the same toward me, though no words had been spoken. [5]
- That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also. [2]
- The whole Bankside, with its taverns, play-houses, and worse, its bear pits and gardens, was the scene of roystering and coarse amusement. [4]
- A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
- Mack has surrendered with his whole army. [2]
- She felt--she knew--that with her husband a portion of her own being had been riven from her, but she could not yet perceive that this last portion was nothing less than the very foundations of her whole moral and social being. [10]
- The devoted wife with great pain and risk came the whole journey to Honolulu, and pleaded until the authorities were unable to resist her entreaty that she might go and live like a leper with her leper husband. [5]
- Conrad came last with Beaton, who had been turning over the music at the piano, and chafing inwardly at the whole affair. [8]
- And Hodder had, with an audacity unparalleled in the banker's experience arraigned by implication his whole life, managed to put him on the defensive. [9]
- Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth for blood and garbage, and the result is that you are daily overfed and suffer a surfeit. [5]
- Fulkerson," said Beaton, with a return to what they were saying, "has managed the whole business very well. [8]
- Speaking thickly and with a faraway look in his shining eyes, he told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her. [2]
- Accept my best wishes for your individual welfare, and for the welfare and happiness of the whole British people. [7]
- We grounded the wire of a pocket electrical battery in that powder, we placed a whole magazine of Greek fire on each corner of the roof--blue on one corner, green on another, red on another, and purple on the last--and grounded a wire in each. [5]
- The amount of wine he had drunk to-day would generally have had no more effect upon him than water, and yet he had felt now and then as if he were drunken, and the whole festal hall turned round with him. [10]
- Smith professed himself willing to retire to England, but, seeing the new commission did not arrive, held on to his authority, and began to enforce it to save the whole colony from anarchy. [4]
- Come when you will, and call me your mother with the same perfect confidence with which I, from my whole heart, name you my daughter. [10]
- Soon his delusion will pass away and be forgotten, and his poor mind will be whole again. [5]
- A young man will catch the whole family with this flaming message, but where is that sentiment that once set the maiden heart in a flutter? [4]
- The whole town will be on its head! [5]
- By examination it will be found that the first thirty-three lines, being precisely one third of the whole, relate exclusively to the distribution of the stock by the commissioners appointed by the State. [7]
- He says: "I will ask the senator to show me an intimation, from any one member of the Senate, in the whole debate on the Toombs bill, and in the Union, from any quarter, that the constitution was not to be submitted to the people. [7]
- The whole company will arrive this evening. [10]
- Oh those high, wild, desolate moors, up above the whole world, and the very realms of silence I Home to dinner at two. [14]
- Do you understand why it is, Mr. Henderson, that one can enjoy the whole day and then be thoroughly dissatisfied with it? [4]
- The only reason why I write is that I want another letter from you, and because I have a whole afternoon for the job. [5]
- The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people. [2]
- The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. [6]
- But, on the whole, we rolled southward happily, between high walls and hedges, past trim gardens and fields and meadows, and I marvelled at the regular, park-like look of the country, as though stamped from one design continually recurring, like our butter at Carvel Hall. [9]
- Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
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