WHATEVER in a Sentence

Learn WHATEVER 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.
277 example sentences for WHATEVER, such as:
1. I'll try to do whatever is right.
2. Nothing whatever appeared on the stage.
3. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
4. Their audience will lap up whatever they throw at them.
5. We will be grateful for whatever amount you can afford.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WHATEVER
whatever
 a.  one or some or every or all without specification
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Having tethered the horses, and bade Lucy adieu, he threw his gun over his shoulder, and set out in search of whatever chance might throw in his way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  I was to bring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  There was no wastage whatever; the hens and ducks with their sharp eyes had gathered up the very last stalk.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
4  But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
5  In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were NOT in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
6  Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
7  In which case it meant--but what it meant to Mrs. Sands, when people missed their trains, and she, whatever she might want to do, must wait, by the oven, keeping meat hot, no one knew.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
8  Nothing whatever appeared on the stage.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  Each turned ostensibly to say--O whatever came handy--to his neighbour.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  But, the gramophone asserted, let us retain whatever made that harmony.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
12  He looked at her with some disappointment in his face, but with a respectful and patient conviction that she must be right in whatever she did.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
13  These accidents did sometimes happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the bankrupts had no connexion whatever with the improvident classes.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  You know I am a sordid piece of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding whatever.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  You may be certain that I will save you at whatever cost.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1  We will accept ultimate responsibility for whatever happens.
2  He has the ability to achieve success in whatever field of endeavour he should choose.
3  Hanson's golden rule is to add value to whatever business he buys.
4  Do whatever you want - it won't affect me.
5  We could go now or this afternoon - whatever time suits you best.
6  It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age.
7  Politics, as a pracitice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
8  We will be grateful for whatever amount you can afford.
9  We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
10  Their audience will lap up whatever they throw at them.
11  He has been vested with the power/authority to implement whatever changes he sees fit.
12  It was lawful for the doctors to treat her in whatever way they considered was in her best interests.
13  Low-ranking females will have young of whatever gender leaves the troop in order not to saddle the young with low rank.
14  I'll try to do whatever is right.
15  The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame.