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Example sentences for "know what"

  • I don't say she likes him; I don't know what it is they say to each other when they're shut up together alone.

  • You don't know what a weight is off my mind!

  • What damning evidence--of I don't know what!

  • I didn't know what it was till I saw you again.

  • The poor little bird did not know what to do.

  • But how is a poor little bird to know what is mischief?

  • The Winnebagoans seem to know what is being served and worn, from salad to veilings, surprisingly soon after New York has informed itself on those subjects.

  • You don't know what it means to be eaten up with ambition and to be handicapped.

  • When a boy's voice is changing, and he doesn't know what to do with his hands and feet, he is better off at home.

  • If that doesn't prove Mrs. Brandeis was game, I should like to know what could!

  • Well, anyway, I don't know what he had in mind, but you're going to spend Sunday at the dunes of Indiana with me.

  • We didn't know what to say, so we held in and didn't say nothing at all.

  • His horse was put up, and he didn't know what to do.

  • I don't know what to answer, or who Terence Hewet is," Helen continued, in the toneless voice of a ghost.

  • I want to know what's going on behind it.

  • I wanted to talk to him; I wanted to know what he'd done.

  • I aint your patient," said the man, sullenly, "Why should you want to know what I eat?

  • I don't know what to do with the plaguy sheet, though.

  • I don't know what Mrs. Mudge will say," said Paul, who had just come from turning the handle of a churn.

  • Then you don't know what you're talking about.

  • I should like to know what he was really like when he was a boy.

  • How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn evenings come; And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue?

  • But one thing I have a right to say, which is, that at my age I am old enough to know what is best for me.

  • You don't know what a mortification anything of that sort is to a woman.

  • He may know what it is to come down in the world, and to be afflicted with a great personal calamity; but he probably doesn't know what it is to lose the woman he loved.

  • And I would like to know what we are to do with him the night!

  • My good friend,' said I, 'I believe I know what is best for you much better than yourself, and may God forgive you the fright you have given me!

  • Nicholas sat for many golden minutes revolving the possibilities of the scene; he was inclined to think that there were more than four wolves and that the man and his dogs were in a tight corner.

  • I hate being mesmerised, and the doctor has forbidden me to touch sugar.

  • One must always make allowances for origin and locality and early environment; 'Tell me your longitude and I'll know what latitude to allow you,' is my motto.

  • Oh, I don't know what kind," snapped the lady.

  • Then I must confess that I don't know what it is.

  • I don't know what is inside this envelope, but, unless it is something pretty definite, I shall be much tempted to take the next down-river boat and catch the Bolivia at Para.

  • If you are curious to know what course I took under the circumstances, I beg to inform you that I did what you would probably have done in my place.

  • I don't know what is the use of my writing in this way.

  • It is very difficult for us to know what to do as we are not his parents.

  • I don't know what Mrs. Carey would say if she knew the sort of things we talk about together.

  • I don't know what you're going to do, but if you're in the neighbourhood at any time come in and see us.

  • Your father didn't leave very much, and I don't know what's become of it.

  • In the latter case, and especially where the union is with a special auxiliary cell, it is of importance to know what happens to the nuclei of the fusing cells.

  • I know what I mean when I say I believe in the law of the inverse squares, and I will not rest my life and my hopes upon weaker convictions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know what" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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