WHOLE in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for WHOLE, such as:
1. The whole house was alive with activity.
2. We dusted out the whole house this afternoon.
3. The whole place was a scene of feverish activity.
4. Yes, the whole County was here, thought Scarlett.
5. He occupied his whole afternoon reading documents.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WHOLE
whole
 a.  not injured
 a.  exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
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)
1  According to the Bible, the whole of mankind is descended from Adam.
2  The whole place was a scene of feverish activity.
3  The whole house was alive with activity.
4  For the first time in three years, they actually had the luxury of a whole day together.
5  This boom in adult education, in turn, helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
6  Tightness in one set of muscles will affect your whole balance.
7  If this project fails it will affect not only our department, but also the whole organization.
8  Zidane has become the poster child for a whole generation of French-born youths of North African extraction.
9  We dusted out the whole house this afternoon.
10  She'd have prattled on about her new job for the whole afternoon if I'd let her.
11  Mother's been in a great state the whole afternoon.
12  He occupied his whole afternoon reading documents.
13  For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
14  Travel agency jacked the whole thing up for the tourists.
15  And here was his whole formal appellation, as if he were her lawyer or insurance agent.