WHETHER in a Sentence

Learn WHETHER 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.
395 example sentences for WHETHER, such as:
1. I was in a quandary about whether to go.
2. And now she's going whether she wants to or not.
3. I am in a dilemma whether to do maths or English.
4. It's no matter to me whether you arrive early or late.
5. It is unclear whether the meeting will go ahead as planned.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WHETHER
whether
 conj.  expressing doubt or choice between alternatives;
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You have left me no power to consider whether I am just to you or not.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  The ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extracting it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  Tell me, therefore, whether you object to an immediate solemnization of the marriage.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
5  If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable; yet, again, I considered whether my marriage would hasten my fate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
6  As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  I write to you, encompassed by peril and ignorant whether I am ever doomed to see again dear England and the dearer friends that inhabit it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  I hardly know whether I shall have the power to detail it; yet the tale which I have recorded would be incomplete without this final and wonderful catastrophe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  So I didn't know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney Island or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  And now she's going whether she wants to or not.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  As to any other kind of discipline, whether addressed to her mind or heart, little Pearl might or might not be within its reach, in accordance with the caprice that ruled the moment.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
13  Little Pearl's unwonted mood of sentiment lasted no longer; she laughed, and went capering down the hall so airily, that old Mr. Wilson raised a question whether even her tiptoes touched the floor.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
14  Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness, which, whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment, "it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
15  There can be, if I forbode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried in the human heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
Example Sentence: (185 in 13 pages)
1  The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
2  I was in a quandary about whether to go.
3  The important question is whether he is prepared to go to war to achieve his territorial ambitions.
4  I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter.
5  The administration has no vested interest in proving whether public schools were good or bad.
6  As a police officer you are expected to uphold the law whether you agree with it or not.
7  It is unclear whether the meeting will go ahead as planned.
8  The district board will vote today on whether to go ahead with the plan.
9  I am in a dilemma whether to do maths or English.
10  Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
11  I need to know more about the job before I decide whether to apply for it.
12  I'll visit the college and suss it out before I decide whether to apply or not.
13  It's no matter to me whether you arrive early or late.
14  The Washington state attorney general had not decided whether to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
15  I discussed with my intimate friends whether I would immediately have a baby.