WHAT in a Sentence

Learn WHAT 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.
405 example sentences for WHAT, such as:
1. I don't care what anyone says.
2. I am sorry for what I have done.
3. Marianne hardly knew what to say.
4. That was what I said immediately.
5. That is exactly what I said, my dear.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WHAT
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  "I told you what's been going on," said Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  You are not aware of what you are doing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  Marianne hardly knew what to say.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
5  "That is exactly what I think of him," cried Marianne.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
6  This is what I believe to have happened.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
7  to supply the place of what was taken away.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
8  That is exactly what I said, my dear.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
9  But I am sorry to relate what ensued.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
10  I only stood at the door, and heard what I could.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38
11  Elinor made what excuse she could for her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
12  That was what I said immediately.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
13  I cannot pretend to describe what I then felt.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  Exactly what I myself had thought, many times.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
15  Exactly what was perfectly manifest to me at the moment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
Example Sentence: (203 in 14 pages)
1  Behave in accordance with what is expected of your age.
2  Be more specific about what you want to do.
3  No one is sorrier than I am about what happened.
4  I am sorry for what I have done.
5  I don't care what anyone says.
6  That's what bugs my missus more than anything.
7  Do what you are told and don't argue with me.
8  Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
9  Don't just blindly accept what you are told.
10  Don't pay any attention to what they say.
11  Please pay attention to what I am saying.
12  He paid scant attention to what was said.
13  I don't pay much attention to what he says.
14  You must account to father what you have done.
15  His account of what happened is substantially accurate.