WHOSE in a Sentence

Learn WHOSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

323 example sentences for WHOSE, such as:

1. The gunman, whose mask had slipped, fled.
2. I felt great pity for the woman whose baby died.
3. Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.
4. We were pipped at the post by a firm whose price was lower.
5. She's the student whose handwriting is the best in my class.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHOSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
whose
 pron.  of whom; belonging to whom
 a.  the possessive case of which
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She ate well, declaring that the mild weather made her feel better, and pressed a second helping of beans on Jotham Powell, whose wants she generally ignored.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  He went about his task without knowing what force directed him, or whose hands and feet were fulfilling its orders.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned a hundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  While the society of up-country Georgia was not so impregnable as that of the Coast aristocrats, no family wanted a daughter to wed a man about whose grandfather nothing was known.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Gerald knew that despite the genuine liking of the County men with whom he hunted, drank and talked politics there was hardly one whose daughter he could marry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  "I am sorry I am so late," said Ellen, slipping her plaid shawl from drooping shoulders and handing it to Scarlett, whose cheek she patted in passing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  She took new courage at this thought and redoubled her efforts in the direction of Charles, whose brown eyes glowed down eagerly at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Little Wade was no longer an annoyance, for the family, black and white, and the neighbors idolized him and there was a never-ceasing rivalry as to whose lap he should occupy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Mrs. Whiting's cousin, Mrs. Coleman, whose husband came from Charleston, told me about him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Then, I fear, we will become like the Yankees, at whose money-making activities, acquisitiveness and commercialism we now sneer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  Mothers found strange men calling on their daughters, men who came without letters of introduction and whose antecedents were unknown.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  If I didn't have such big feet I could get them off dead Yankees like the other boys, but I've never yet found a Yankee whose feet were near as big as mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  She did not care for the eager competition furnished by the sixteen-year-olds whose fresh cheeks and bright smiles made one forget their twice-turned frocks and patched shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  There were women in the mob near Decatur Street, garishly dressed women whose bright finery and painted faces gave a discordant note of holiday.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  Most of them were drunk and the soldiers on whose arms they hung were drunker.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (113 in 8 pages)
16  The gunman, whose mask had slipped, fled.
17  In the film, he plays a spy whose mission is to confirm the verity of a secret military document.
18  Research suggests that children whose parents split up are more likely to drop out of high school.
19  Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
20  I saw a man shouting at a driver whose car was blocking the street.
21  She's the student whose handwriting is the best in my class.
22  A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured except by heart.
23  Diana's house was crowded with happy people whose spontaneous outbursts of song were accompanied by lively music.
24  I felt great pity for the woman whose baby died.
25  She receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land.
26  Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.
27  Police are investigating the death of an unidentified man whose body was found in Crackley Woods yesterday.
28  We were pipped at the post by a firm whose price was lower.
29  Airport officials received a stream of verbal abuse from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.
30  Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.