Sentence for why | Use why in a sentence

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

  • Why, of course! (9)
  • Why, in the City. (22)
  • Why, my dear, of course! (8)
  • Why, of course you are. (10)
  • For why? (10)
  • Why, he farms with brains. (10)
  • Why, indeed, should he stay? (10)
  • Why am I here? (10)
  • Why be unhappy? (8)
  • Why do I dance? (10)
  • Why had he come? (8)
  • Why do you smile? (8)
  • Why, it would be criminal to them. (13)
  • Why had he turned? (10)
  • He could not say why. (8)
  • Why did she hesitate? (10)
  • Why did you lose time? (10)
  • Why should he love her? (8)
  • Why should I spare him? (8)
  • Why take her to the ball? (10)
  • Ye wonder why I tell ye that? (8)
  • Why did they not fix bayonets? (7)
  • Why had that smile so moved him? (8)
  • Why did he take things so hardly? (8)
  • Why did I take the beastly thing? (8)
  • Why do I tell you all this, dear? (1)
  • Why chastize that man Morsfield at all? (10)
  • Why should she not tell her doctor this? (9)
  • Why was not she to be as useful as Anne? (4)
  • It was her duty; why not her delight, too? (8)
  • Jane wondered why the letter had been shown. (10)
  • Well, if he were here, I should find out why. (9)
  • Why had Rose covered her head and shuddered? (10)
  • Why should the gentlemen take their hats off? (9)
  • Why, do you maintain him to be insensible to a title for you? (10)
  • Why do we consider music a force in civilization? (3)
  • Why should you be less fortunate than your mother? (4)
  • Why should you refuse to give his message to Burnamy? (9)
  • Why, Bob, as a military man, you ought to acknowledge your superiors. (22)
  • That is one reason, perhaps, why I have been an enigma. (10)
  • Why do you inflict a torture on me whenever you see me? (10)
  • Though he could not have said why, it made him feel uneasy. (8)
  • Why did you resist the police in the execution of their duty? (8)
  • And why should not Evan marry an heiress, as well as another? (10)
  • I had now an idea of my own why the reeds so bitterly shivered. (2)
  • Why, how happy and careless the life of such a poor shrub was compared with ours! (14)
  • Explain to me what you are really doing, and why you are doing it. (12)
  • Why, at my best, the years the influenza was so bad, I never cleared a thousand net. (8)
  • Why, and of whom, and whence; and tell they truth, The legends of her mission to beguile? (10)
  • Yet, after all, I tacitly argued with him, why should we call her selfish? (9)
  • Why had he not come to her once after reading the line pencilled in the book? (10)
  • Not until he had gone some way did he perceive why he had made that announcement. (8)
  • But why should I be so violent of phrase against these guiltless means of millionairing? (9)
  • He made no pretence of asking her why she wished to go, nor any attempt to dissuade her. (9)
  • Perhaps not: then, why had she sent word to him from Milan that she would be at Pallanza? (10)
  • And (raising his voice still more) I do not see why Miss Fairfax should not be mentioned too. (4)
  • A sensible man, and he had looked like a very sensible man, why should it be an object to him? (4)
  • Why could one not put happiness into Local Loans, gild its edges, insure it against going down? (8)
  • Vittoria, without a spark of interest, asked why the Signor Antonio should be following the army. (10)
  • And why, when it flung up its whale-spouts of steam, she was not journeying in it, she could not tell. (10)
  • The tears poured, she could not explain why, beyond assuring him that they were no sign of unhappiness. (10)
  • She remembered them now with a curiosity, which had no rancor in it, to know why he really took them back. (9)
  • Why, hundreds before us have paced the identical way homeward at night under these lamps between the mansions and the park. (10)
  • At the station he wrote a second telegram to the farm, and then tore it up; he could not have explained why. (8)
  • It appeared that he was leaving England; and to her questions why, and where, he had only shrugged his shoulders. (8)
  • Perhaps the very obvious necessity for its enforcement is at the same time the reason why it is so seldom broken. (21)
  • Why it should sound elsewhere unsatisfactorily blunt, and there possess a finished charm, I could not understand. (10)
  • Enthusiasm is very wearing; and I begin to understand why prophets were unpopular in Judea, where they were best known. (2)
  • He could have silenced Mr. Manx with the posing interrogation: Why have I so long consented to put myself at the mercy of a bore? (10)
  • At the same time, there is no reason why they should not be respected, managed with some degree of regard for me and attention to consequences. (10)
  • If not accidentally delayed on her journey, she had been needlessly the cause why Lord Ormont hugged his Club during the morning and afternoon. (10)
  • There are plain reasons why the Comic poet is not a frequent apparition; and why the great Comic poet remains without a fellow. (10)

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