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Sentence count:282+63Posted:2016-07-15Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: but whatsomewhatwhatsoeverwhat is morewhalehatthatand thatMeaning: [wɒt]  pron.1. (used interrogatively as a request for specific information): What is the matter? 2. (used interrogatively to inquire about the character, occupation, etc., of a person): What does he do? 3. (used interrogatively to inquire as to the origin, identity, etc., of something): What are those birds? 4. (used interrogatively to inquire as to the worth, usefulness, force, or importance of something): What is wealth without friends? 5. (used interrogatively to request a repetition of words or information not fully understood, usually used in elliptical constructions): You need what? 6. (used interrogatively to inquire the reason or purpose of something, usually used in elliptical constructions): What of it? 7. how much?: What does it cost? 8. (used relatively to indicate that which): I will send what was promised. 9. whatever; anything that: Say what you please. Come what may. 10. the kind of thing or person that: He said what everyone expected he would. They are just what I was expecting. 11. as much as; as many as: We should each give what we can. 12. the thing or fact that (used in parenthetic clauses): He went to the meeting and, what was worse, insisted on speaking. 13. (used to indicate more to follow, additional possibilities, alternatives, etc.): You know what? Shall we go or what? 14. (used as an intensifier in exclamatory phrases, often fol. by an indefinite article): What luck! What an idea! 15. Brit. don't you agree?: An unusual chap, what? 16. Nonstandard. that; which; who: She's the one what told me. 17. Say what? Slang. (used esp. among teenagers) What's that you say? Would you repeat that? 18. So what? Informal. (an expression of disinterest, disinclination, or contempt.) 19. what have you, other things of the same kind; so forth: money, jewels, stocks, and what have you. 20. what for, why: What are you doing that for? a punishment or scolding. 21. what if, what would be the outcome if; suppose that: What if everyone who was invited comes? 22. what it takes, something that enables one to achieve success or attain a desired end, as good looks, ability, or money: There's a young woman who has what it takes to get along in the world. 23. what's what, Informal. the true situation; all the facts: It's high time you told him what's what. n.24. the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation. adj.25. (used interrogatively before nouns): What news? What clothes shall I pack? 26. whatever: Take what supplies you need. adv.27. to what extent or degree? how much?: What does it matter? 28. (used to introduce a prepositional phrase beginning with with): What with storms and all, their return was delayed. 29. Obs. for what reason or purpose? why? interj.30. (used in exclamatory expressions, often fol. by a question): What, no salt? conj.31. Older Use. as much as; as far as: He helps me what he can. 32. but what, Informal. but that; but who; who or that ... not: Who knows but what the sun may still shine.. 
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(91) What good shall I do this day? What good have I done today? 
(92) What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts. 
(93) My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep, and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. 
(94) What do you expect from a pig but a grunt? 
(95) Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it. 
(96) Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. 
(97) What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over. 
(98) Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 
(99) Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet. 
(100) The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it. 
(101) It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do. 
(102) What we love to do we find time to do. 
(103) I am not now that which I have been.(I am not what I used to be.). 
(104) A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. 
(105) Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. Charles de Gaulle 
(106) Wherever he is satisfied with what he does, he has reached his culminating point--he will progress no more. 
(107) It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about? 
(108) He that hath no children, knows not what is love. 
(109) The measure of a man's real character is what he would do ifhe knew he would never be found out. 
(110) He knows best what good is that has endured evil. 
(111) The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. 
(112) The greatest fool is he who worries about what he cannot help. 
(113) He that can have patience, can have what he will. 
(114) Money is not the root of all eviles as is usually claimed, what is the root of all evils is the lust for money, that is the excessive, selfish and greedy pusuit of mnoey. 
(115) Experience never misleads; what you are missed by is only your judgement,(www.Sentencedict.com) and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experements. 
(116) Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win? 
(117) jiddu Krishnamurti, lndia-born religious philosop Aman who does not know what passion is will never knowlove because love can come into being only when there is total self aban -donment . 
(118) Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear. 
(119) What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh. 
(120) What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. 
More similar words: but whatsomewhatwhatsoeverwhat is morewhalehatthatand thatall thatin thatat thatthat isnow thatso thatsee thatlaugh atonly thatand all thatseeing thatin order thatthat is to sayat that time
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