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Example sentences for "what avail"

  • Of what avail may it be to release him from prison when the Britishers will make short work in their search after the day has come?

  • Of what avail is a mere piece of parchment?

  • Of what avail to demand a trial by jury, process for witnesses, a copy of the indictment, the privilege of counsel, or that greater privilege, the writ of habeas corpus?

  • Of what avail will it be to any one of these Southern people, when seized by a file of soldiers, to ask for the cause of arrest, or for the production of the warrant?

  • Of what avail to ask for the privilege of bail when in military custody, which knows no such thing as bail?

  • True, in the suffrage States women are guaranteed equal rights to property; but of what avail is that right to the mass of women without property, the thousands of wage workers, who live from hand to mouth?

  • Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor?

  • Of what avail would my looms and my money be if I had not your industrious hands and your good will to serve me?

  • Of what avail, then, was it to the poor Jews to have toiled and worked so hard, driven by the necessity of paying the hateful Jewish poll-tax, and thereby procuring for themselves a temporary toleration?

  • Of what avail was it that he worked indefatigably in the service of his benefactor?

  • Of what avail to demand a trial by jury, process for witnesses, a copy of the indictment, the privilege of counselor that greater privilege, the writ of habeas corpus?

  • Of what avail will it be to any one of these Southern people when seized by a file of soldiers to ask for the cause of arrest or for the production of the warrant?

  • I utter and utter: I speak not; yet, if you hear me not, of what avail am I to you?

  • To bear--to better; lacking these, of what avail am I?

  • To think there will still be farms, profits, crops--yet for you, of what avail?

  • Now of what avail will a good character be without health to apply its forces to the work of life?

  • Of what avail is a good boiler and a high pressure of steam to the engineer if his engine is all out of order, so that it has neither strength nor freedom to work?

  • If it is not greased and peppered, shortened and raised, concentrated and almost distilled, and then taken at hours of ton, and in wholesale quantities, of what avail is it?

  • To bear, to better, lacking these of what avail am I?

  • Of what avail," said the veteran Mohammed, "is a declaration of the kind, which we may falsify by our deeds?

  • Of what avail," said he, bitterly, "is all the prowess of knighthood against these cowardly engines that murder from afar?

  • But of what avail," said he, "is a supply for a few months against the sieges of the Castilian monarch, which are interminable?

  • Of what avail to reduce the universe to one substance, as the monists do?

  • Of what avail to the individual to know that the race is to be perfected a thousand years hence?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what avail" 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:
    smile upon his lips; what adventure; what becomes; what chance; what constitutes; what does; what estate; what exists; what extent; what ground; what light; what looked; what love; what made; what makes; what proportion; what religion; what sense; what time; what used; what way; what wilt; what woman; what you have done; whatever rank; whatever you