Sentence for which | Use which in a sentence

Which example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use which in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for which.

  • Instead of which, I let you go. (10)
  • Then which of them was the more lover-like? (10)
  • Which is the father of the fortunate creature? (10)
  • But this was not all which they had to make them happy. (4)
  • A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride. (4)
  • But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. (4)
  • His mother drew a long breath, which she tried to render inaudible. (9)
  • Everybody knew the fate which had come, or was coming, upon capital. (8)
  • She turned upon her way, and he kept the path which she had been going. (9)
  • He fell asleep with the pang in his heart which had been there so often. (9)
  • We are not angels, which have their dulcimers ever on the choral pitch. (10)
  • It had been a supper of copious wine, and the songs which rise from wine. (10)
  • And gradually he really recalled a rumour of that kind which had come to him. (12)
  • Hard to describe the bitterness with which he entered his studio that morning. (8)
  • It opens upon a spacious landing, to which a wide staircase ascends at one side. (9)
  • Lavender watched it disappear with a certain irritation which he subdued at once. (8)
  • And at the document which did hand it down he looked with angry and resentful eyes. (8)
  • The day which she had spent at that place had been one of the happiest of her life. (4)
  • And following an impulse which he could not resist, he made his way to the old Square. (8)
  • A wolf to which a mild current was applied, stood upon its haunches and cried piteously. (21)
  • What amused me in the affair was the celerity with which it took itself out of our hands. (9)
  • Our Mother, who speeds her bloomful quick For the march, reads which the impediment well. (10)
  • She had settled it with that air of practical sense which her title made graceful to him. (10)
  • Some are for the graceful worldliness of wit, of which they have just share enough to admire it. (10)
  • Over, this sad subject, of which we must presume her to be accurately cognizant, Rose brooded heavily. (10)
  • This service, which was meant primarily to cover European news, grew slowly to cover the United States. (16)
  • He has a fine dignified manner, which suits the head of such a house, and keeps everybody in their place. (4)
  • That treasure of her voice, to which no one in the house made allusion, became indeed a buried treasure. (10)
  • From time to time there were feeble efforts to move the talk out of the rut in which it had become fixed. (13)
  • In this year he composed his octet for strings, in which his individuality first asserted itself strongly. (3)
  • Strange to say the things she had laughed at had been the things which struck her feelings and sympathies. (10)
  • But aside from the machine and my comparison, you have inflicted a loss on me for which there are no words. (12)
  • And there was a silence, during which neither knew whether the arm or the hand within it were quivering most. (8)
  • I have one little job of writing to finish, after which I shall revise my poems and prose for a new edition. (14)
  • In his despair he went down to the steamer office, and took a room which one of the clerks said was the best. (9)
  • As soon as he had determined to go, an ideal of the figure in which he should go presented itself to his mind. (9)
  • And thus he runs a danger obviated in the case of the Drama which has the protection of a prudential Censorship. (8)
  • Perhaps we love the picturesque charm with which novelists and poets have invested the old feudal order of things? (14)
  • The loss of his wife in 1894 had been one of those domestic tragedies which turn out in the end for the good of all. (8)
  • It would be better if they could be got rid of before quarter day, up to which she had weakly said they might remain. (8)
  • Then La Pérouse sailed away for York Factory, which at this time was garrisoned by sixty English and twelve Indians. (19)
  • And sure enough there was a book on the table which had the air of being very recently closed: a volume of Shakespeare. (4)
  • Longfellow had a ghost story of this quaint plaisance, which he used to tell with an artful reserve of the catastrophe. (9)
  • The anxious, uncertain glance which Herr Paul gave her at these words roused an unwilling feeling of compunction in her. (8)
  • But some of those little attentions and encouragements which ladies can so easily give will fix him, in spite of himself. (4)
  • He was, in fact, rather bewildered with the situation, for which he felt himself remotely if not immediately responsible. (9)
  • One of them, Joseph Le Caron, went forward to the distant Huron country, which had not yet been visited by any European. (19)
  • Robert laughed gently, and tied the two hoards in separate papers, which he stowed into one box, and fixed under string. (10)
  • The vice-consul was not sure how far his powers went in the situation with which Mrs. Lander had finally embarrassed him. (9)
  • Mrs. Pendyce took out her purse and gave her half a crown, and as she did so felt a gush of feeling which was almost rage. (8)
  • The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. (9)
  • All that she succeeded in doing was to rob it of the aurora colour clothing everything on which Matey Weyburn set his aim. (10)
  • And I felt at once tranquil and elated, as when something is met with which rouses and fascinates in a man all his faculties. (8)
  • A number of them had enclosed a square in the middle of the path with four of the benches, which they made believe was a fort. (9)
  • He wrote her name in simple fondness of the name; a verse, and hints for more, and some sentences, which he thought profound. (10)
  • With a tenderness which Mrs. Mel permitted rather than encouraged, Evan put his arm round her neck, and kissed her many times. (10)
  • He discovered the so-called combinational sound, by which is meant the sounding of a third sound when two tones are sounded together. (3)
  • As an example of this, one house might be mentioned which was greatly marred by the settling of the footings under the porch columns. (17)
  • Catherine was restlessly miserable; she could almost have run round to the box in which he sat and forced him to hear her explanation. (4)
  • He proposed the visit, and Doctor Holmes received us with a mind in which he had evidently formulated all his thoughts upon the matter. (9)
  • His mother would look at him with such a patient sadness which yet had in it an instinctive pride, as if she were reserving her defence. (8)
  • That Piece of Ground lay for some years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted him; the Box was consumed. (2)
  • From the smoky ceiling hung the great antlers of a stag, to which the electric bulbs had been fastened with an effect of picturesqueness. (12)
  • Poor Harriet was in a flutter of spirits which required all the reasonings and soothings and attentions of every kind that Emma could give. (4)
  • She fluttered before him in either aspect; and another perplexity now was to distinguish within himself which was the aspect he preferred. (10)
  • Such chords were not generally written out, but were suggested by their bass note, over which figures were written to show their positions. (3)
  • Thinking which, he was accosted by a young woman: perfectly respectable, in every way: who inquired if he had seen a young man enter the door. (10)
  • No new contributor made his mark in the magazine unnoted by him, and sometimes I showed him verse in manuscript which gave me peculiar pleasure. (9)
  • On this particular morning the thought which gathered rapid momentum was that if he became ill, at his age not improbable, he would not see her. (8)
  • Perhaps the only thing (besides, of course, our common mortality) which we have in common with the excursionists is our love of the trolley-line. (9)
  • Another method by which an intimate connection between ground and house can be produced is in the blending of wall materials and foundation-stones. (17)
  • Masterly was the skill with which the Countess contrived to speak angrily and as an injured woman, while she wore an indifferent social countenance. (10)
  • By withholding the large capacity for happiness which the simple satisfactions of the forest life could not have filled, Heaven had dealt honorably with her. (1)
  • Some of them were speciously unfavorable in tone; they criticised and even ridiculed the principles on which the new departure in literary journalism was based. (9)
  • Yet French composers have produced and still make most beautiful and charming songs which unmistakably embody the national characteristics, clearness, polish and an effective singing melody. (3)

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