WHOLE in a Sentence

Learn WHOLE 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.

420 example sentences for WHOLE, such as:

1. That will mess up the whole analysis.
2. This custom prevails over the whole area.
3. Thereupon the whole audience began cheering.
4. Apply the varnish evenly over the whole surface.
5. Yes, the whole County was here, thought Scarlett.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHOLE
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whole
 a.  complete
 n.  the entire quantity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "There was a whole lot of them coasting before the moon set," she said.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  It was not possible to think of such things without a revolt of his whole being.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  The Yankees may be scared of us, but after the way General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand branded as cowards before the whole world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  There was a steely quality under her stately gentleness that awed the whole household, Gerald as well as the girls, though he would have died rather than admit it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The whole group looked up eagerly as she entered rapidly, her hoops swaying, her face tired and sad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Lying in the bed with the moonlight streaming dimly over her, she pictured the whole scene in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  She felt so excited and happy this morning that she included the whole world, as well as Gerald, in her affection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  The whole family knew that Carreen's thirteen-year-old heart was set upon Brent Tarleton, who never gave her a thought except as Scarlett's baby sister.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Yes, the whole County was here, thought Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Only the young men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  If she could only be with Ellen, just to see her, to hold onto her skirt, to cry and pour out the whole story in her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  He looked down at her radiantly, his whole clean simple heart in his eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  A week after the wedding Charles left to join Colonel Wade Hampton, and two weeks later Ashley and the Troop departed, leaving the whole County bereft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Her spirits drooped, despite the efforts of the whole plantation to revive them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The whole family was in agreement with her about/on what they should do.
17  Although it doesn't look like it, the whole thing is highly organized.
18  If a friend tells a fault, imagine always that he has not told the whole.
19  That will mess up the whole analysis.
20  One who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
21  The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
22  These arrangements under the treaty apply to the whole of Europe.
23  Apply the varnish evenly over the whole surface.
24  This custom prevails over the whole area.
25  The article trivializes the whole issue of equal rights.
26  We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
27  It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you.
28  The whole building was soon ablaze after the attack.
29  As soon as they found out I was a doctor their whole attitude changed.
30  Thereupon the whole audience began cheering.