Use whom in a sentence
Sentences starting with whom
- Whom do we trust and serve? [6]
- Whom do you think it is? [11]
- Whom dost thou take me to be? [5]
- Whom has she sent for to take charge of this thundering rabble of new recruits at Blois, made up of old disbanded Armagnac raiders, unspeakable hellions, every one? [5]
- Whom will you send for? [2]
- Whom do you seek here mother? [10]
- Whom does it protect, then? [5]
- Whom did it prosper? [12]
- Whom will you name first? [5]
- Whom did you meet? [10]
Sentences ending with whom
- Twelve years before, while still sharing the tent of the Walloon captain Grandgagnage, it had been given her, she could not say how or by whom. [10]
- Well, tell me where you heard it and from whom? [13]
- I was being tortured with Mr. Mappin's needle horribly by--guess whom? [11]
- The money belonged to whom? [11]
- The story is that he has a queer antipathy to something or to somebody, nobody knows what or whom. [6]
- Self-sacrifice was her most cherished idea but in this case she could not see what she ought to sacrifice, or for whom. [2]
- What Paula has known and possessed, she keeps locked in the treasure-house of her memory under bolt and key; What Paula is, she feels she still must be--and for whom? [10]
- While she sat in the carriage beside her father, pensively watching the lights of the street lamps flickering on the frozen window, she felt still sadder and more in love, and forgot where she was going and with whom. [2]
- And for whom, I ask you, for whom? [10]
- In the anteroom he was met by rejected petitioners, and he said to himself, with a bitter smile, that he had just been sent about his business in the same unsatisfied mood--yes, sent about his business--and by whom? [10]
Short sentences using whom
- For whom do you speak? [11]
- To whom did you apply? [2]
- For whom you will. [10]
- And whom do they send? [9]
- For whom were these tears? [10]
- To whom does Spiritualism appeal? [5]
- With whom was she talking? [10]
- Marry whom he pleased! [12]
- On whom be peace! [5]
- See whom she looks like! [2]
Sentences containing whom two or more times
- He has given you a son whom all men may look in the face, of whom you need never be ashamed. [9]
- In Spain there would always be some woman whom he could cajole; some comrade whom he could betray; some priest whom he could deceive, whose pocket he could empty by the recital of his troubles. [11]
- Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor; darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides, to shoot the gulf, to reconcile the irreconcilable? [6]
- There were many whom, instinctively, I was on my guard against, but some I thought really nice, whom I trusted, revealed a side I had not suspected. [9]
- There are persons, whom we all know, to whom human confidences, troubles and heart-aches flow as naturally its streams to a placid lake. [5]
- Among the courtiers whom she had known so well in Ratisbon not one vouchsafed her anything more than a passing greeting; and the Queen of Hungary, to whom she would gladly have poured out her heart, had refused her repeated entreaties for an audience. [10]
- When the scoundrel whom she had called husband, and for whom her contempt had become too deep for hate, sneeringly assailed her family as having been fed from generation to generation from the corn-bin of the Museum, she bit her lips. [10]
- It was Honora whom Mr. Spence sought after breakfast, and to whom he declared that her presence alone prevented him from leaving that afternoon. [9]
- Among the guests whom I met in the grounds was a gentleman of the medical profession, whose name I had often heard, and whom I was very glad to see and talk with. [6]
- The third, on whom I had set great hopes, was beheaded the day before yesterday without my knowledge; but the pair whom you have condescended to inspect with your own eyes are sufficient. [10]
More example sentences with the word whom in them
- He hoped this youth to whom she was attached would make her life happy. [6]
- A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
- Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
- If only for your sake I will avoid doing so, for an honorable soul clings to those whom it sees maligned. [10]
- He is of your own county, of your own village, is your neighbour, a man of whom all England should be proud. [11]
- One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
- I am too young to welcome as a guest every one whom this or that man presents to me. [10]
- He married a young lady whom I knew. [5]
- If I were you, I would begin with Demeter, whom you honoured by so marvellous a work. [10]
- Now, frankly, are you speaking of Miss Treherne, or of some one of whom she is the outline, as it were? [11]
- She of whom you speak is the wife of another. [10]
- Do all whom you send from Hartford serve their Master as well? [5]
- And whom do you seek here? [10]
- You remember, do you not, that the hero of that book sacrifices himself for the lady who adores him, but whom he has ceased to adore? [9]
- When you say you know that the immortals will have pity on the innocent woman whom they have led to the verge of the abyss, perhaps you may be right. [10]
- And whom do you know so well as your friends? [6]
- But of course you know her already," he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with whom he now found nothing in common. [2]
- Before whom do you intend to lay your trophies of the chase? [11]
- Say from whom you had it. [2]
- Since you say you could recognise the originals of all except the heroines, pray whom did you suppose the two Moores to represent? [14]
- A woman whom you can shape. [9]
- I will cure you because you are the person to whom the infamous wretch most ardently wished the sorest trouble. [10]
- By the Ghost, you are worth seven of that Roger Spratt whom you sent to hell in his boots. [9]
- I move that you appoint Jack Halliday to get up there and auction off that sack of gilt twenty-dollar pieces, and give the result to the right man--the man whom Hadleyburg delights to honour--Edward Richards. [5]
- I have needed you all my life--one in whom h might have absolute faith. [9]
- John imagines that yonder big thistle is some whiskered villain, of whom he has read in a fairy book, and he advances on him with "Die, ruffian! [4]
- But when he yielded to the impulse to read Wolff's letter again he felt like a dethroned prince whom some stranger, ignorant of his misfortune, praises for his mighty power. [10]
- Eva, the beautiful yet perverse woman, was one of the last persons whom he would have desired to have near him when he took the step into the other world. [10]
- You do not yet know with how sharp a tooth yearning rends the soul of the man whom Fate condemns to live away from his family. [10]
- Could this awkward, yellow man with his hands behind his back be he whom he had worshipped? [9]
- At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
- Nor could Hodder's years of provincialism permit him to forget that this man with whom he was about to enter into personal relations was a capitalist of national importance. [9]
- For some thirty years Bogucharovo had been managed by the village Elder, Dron, whom the old prince called by the diminutive "Dronushka. [2]
- Ardently as he yearned for her to whom all the love of his heart belonged, this meeting would have come too quickly. [10]
- Here it was written why those who asked should receive, and those who sought should find: "For what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? [10]
- The man who would try to heal every suffering brute was accustomed to see those whom he loved best grieve on his account. [10]
- To him I would push up another pawn, in the shape of a comely and wise young woman, whom he would of course take--to wife. [6]
- Althea's very defects would perfect the figure of the restless, wretched weaver whom Athene transformed into the spider. [10]
- Only yesterday he would have sought her without a second thought, but to-day Althea's declaration that he was the only man whom the daughter of Archias loved stood between him and his friend. [10]
- Only yesterday this would have roused her wrath; to-day she could forgive him; for she could forgive anything to this unhappy soul--to the man on whom she had brought such deep anguish. [10]
- In sooth, nothing would have induced Kasana to take this step save the torturing dread of being scorned and execrated as a base traitress by the man whom she loved. [10]
- Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
- Other hours, however, would follow, and if the next did not decide the fate of the woman whom she hated, future ones should. [10]
- To whom else would fall the lion's share of the enormous prize! [10]
- The man who would face a cannon's mouth would falter before the face of a woman whom he could crumple with one hand. [11]
- If not, it would be the turn next of those whom she herself had pushed into the arms of the fell monster: First Heliodora, and then her mother! [10]
- The old Janet would be cast off with the old raiment; the new suit would announce to herself and to the world a Janet in whom were released all those longings hitherto disguised and suppressed, and now become insupportable! [9]
- There was nothing worthy of special note in the trip to Frederick, except our passing a squad of Rebel prisoners, whom I missed seeing, as they flashed by, but who were said to be a most forlorn-looking crowd of scarecrows. [6]
- Once everybody had worshipped him: that was when he had sung in the Mass, the day of the funeral of the wife of Farette the miller, for whom he worked. [11]
- Here was a world, here were people of whom Mona Crozier had never dreamed. [11]
- 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]
- As the evening wore on, he was more and more aware of an uncompromising attitude in his young hostess, whom he had seen whispering to various young ladies from behind her fan as they passed her. [9]
- As the day wore on our numbers increased, we were joined by other lawyers of renown, not the least of whom was Mr. Grolier himself, fresh from his triumph over religious heresy in his Church Convention. [9]
- But the next words: "Do not fear," checked her hasty impulse--she smoothed out the papyrus and read on with growing excitement: "Do not fear that I shall address you as a lover--as the man for whom there is but one woman on earth. [10]
- The orator's passionate words and gestures evoked wild responses from his hearers, whom the drag of an ancient hatred had snatched from the peaceful asylum of the west. [9]
- Here was a wooden-head whom I had put in the way of glittering promotions and prodigious responsibilities, and but one thing could happen: he and his responsibilities would all go to ruin together at the first opportunity. [5]
- When you have won the woman for whom you yearn, the throne, and the sceptre, will your sore heart be healed and happiness make its joyous entry, and also remain in your soul, that is so hard to satisfy? [10]
- This was the woman whom the world thought composed; who had triumphed over its opposition, compelled it to bow before her; who presented to it that self-possessed, unified personality by which he had been struck at their first meeting. [9]
- She was a woman of whom any man might be proud.... "I haven't congratulated you yet, Hugh," she said suddenly, "now that you are a partner of Mr. Watling's. [9]
- But a true woman can always show kindness to everyone whom she does not scorn, so though she blushed deeply at the sight of the man whose kiss she had returned, she received him cordially, and with sympathetic questions. [10]
- 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]
- To intoxicate themselves with wine, the gift of the god to whom they were paying homage, was not only permitted, but commanded, and the juice of the grape proved its all-equalizing power. [10]
- Everybody had friends with whom they were on far more familiar terms. [10]
- Pretty Elspet Zohrer, with whom she had contended for the recruiting officer, Pyramus Kogel, was standing opposite to her, by her partner's side, in the same row with charming little Mietz Schiltl, Anne Mirl Woller, her cousin, Marg Thun, and the others. [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]
- Who were those with whom I played? [12]
- They were people with whom good food wouldn't agree. [4]
- Trafford was alone with the woman through whom his life had been turned awry. [11]
- Melissa had succumbed with the rest; she had shouted and waved her kerchief, and had not heeded Andreas when he held her hand and asked her to consider what a criminal this man was whom she so eagerly hailed. [10]
- And the gentleman with the pink face, whom she is entertaining--" "Is my husband," said Honora, smiling. [9]
- These heavy-eyed men with the alcoholized brains, these pallid youths with the nicotized optic ganglia and thinking-marrows brown as their own meerschaums, of whom you meet too many,--will ask all your wisdom to deal with their poisoned nerves and their enfeebled wills. [3]
- He differed, however, with that gentleman in politics, while in this respect he agreed with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Botts], whom he wished to oblige whenever it was in his power. [7]
- So it was with that chess-playing private from New Zealand of whom Barry Whalen told Ian Stafford. [11]
- Then, as if with sudden thought: "To whom were the letters addressed, Pierre? [11]
- I finished off with reading some verses of my friend the Professor, of whom you may perhaps hear more by and by. [6]
- Major Rollins leaves with me very strong papers from the neighbors of these men, whom he says he knows to be true men. [7]
- The host followed with Marya Antonovna Naryshkina; then came ambassadors, ministers, and various generals, whom Peronskaya diligently named. [2]
- I may speak with less restraint of those gentlemen who have aided me in the most laborious part of my daily duties, the Demonstrators, to whom the successive classes have owed so much of their instruction. [3]
- I am living with Jack Hancock, whom you will remember well. [9]
- By his influence with Ismail he had even more power at last than the Chief Eunuch or the valet-de-chambre, before whom the highest officials bowed low. [11]
- This he opened with his own biography of Washington Irving, the resemblance between whom and himself has been made the subject of frequent remark. [4]
- So he walked with his head high and his heart full of pride, and it confirmed his courage when one of Zminis's men, whom they passed in the brightly illuminated Kanopic street, and who had helped to secure Philip, looked at him without recognizing him. [10]
- But Bucklaw said, with great candour, that unfortunately he had to sail for Boston within thirty-six hours, to keep engagements with divers assignees for whom he had special cargo. [11]
- It was so with every one to whom he spoke. [9]
- She did so with eager zeal; for it was she who had inspired her husband, before whom she had humbled herself, and whose love she now once more possessed, with the idea of inviting Joshua to the alliance both had now concluded. [10]
- Later he camped with Bob Howland, who, as City Marshal of Aurora, became known as the most fearless man in the Territory, and, still later, with Calvin H. Higbie (Cal), to whom 'Roughing It' would one day be dedicated. [5]
- He spoke slowly, with assurance that he would be listened to, and he looked only at the person with whom he was conversing. [2]
- She presented him with an only son, whom he named after his father Rameses. [10]
- Opening the door with all speed, he beheld the expressive countenance of Mr Chuckster, between whom and himself a fraternal greeting ensued. [12]
- He replied, therefore, with a smile, as one to whom the question suggested a very familiar class of facts. [6]
- Mercy," she said, with a quick gesture at my protest, "there are few men with whom one might talk thus in so short an acquaintance. [9]
- Then, seating herself, with a melancholy glance at her embroidery where it lay folded together, she rested her elbow on the table and her head in her hand, considering to whom she could appeal to save her father. [10]
- It perfectly consisted with a keen sense of whatever was sordid and selfish in a man on whom his career must have had its inevitable effect. [8]
- I was received with a deference which was entirely foreign to my experience by everybody whom I met, so that before I got home I had a much higher opinion of myself than I have ever had before or since. [5]
- Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
- The advice seemed wise--at least he tried to persuade himself that it was--because it promised honor and fame, but in reality he wished to follow it because it would bring her for whom his soul yearned nearer to him. [10]
- It was Kate Wimper, who, before that, had waylaid the one man for whom she herself had ever cared, and drawn him from her side by such attractions as she herself would keep for an honest wife, if such she ever chanced to be. [11]
- Unless you are willing to tell me who this lady is for whom you are buying silk dresses, and what your relationship is to her, I shall leave you. [9]
- Go whither you will, stay away even if I send for you; but"--and here his brow clouded again--"why should I try to be merciful to her from whom I looked for sympathy and kindliness, when she flees from me like the rest? [10]
- Besides, this hour will teach us on whom we can depend. [10]
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