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Example sentences for "what could"

  • What could I reply to such words, especially with the memory of a first night of love, and in the expectation of a second?

  • What equal sacrifice could you make for her, on your part, and when you had got tired of her, what could you do to make up for what you had taken from her?

  • You with your seven or eight thousand francs a year, what could you do toward supplying all the luxuries which a girl like that is in need of?

  • What could Frank do but declare that he was ready to lay his own in rest, now and always in her behalf?

  • What could such a man do, left alone in a village like Greshamsbury?

  • What could he say on such a subject to such a man as this?

  • What could I say when it had come to that?

  • She was going to answer, when she was so touched by some little hidden sorrow or sympathy--what could it have been?

  • Not the less unyielding with him on that account, he scraped his chin and said, what could he have the honour of doing for Mr Blandois to-night, out of business hours?

  • It was in all the colonies very much above what could be employed in this manner.

  • What could I hardly be expected to undergo?

  • The old question arose again and again--What could it be?

  • What could be the reason for his sudden determination to have Cowperwood punished?

  • What could he hope to accomplish by rushing in on her in this way and ripping the veil from her very soul before these other men--these crude detectives?

  • What would, what could she do to help him?

  • After all, what could you do with a woman of this kind?

  • Still, what could be greater than her own crime?

  • As long as she preferred living with Emma Ordway, and Emma let her--what could anybody do?

  • Even if it were possible to "fix responsibility," to find the one person, or more than one whom we could prove to blame for these holocausts, what could we do to these persons as fit punishment for such an injury to society?

  • To betray one's country--what could be worse!

  • What could be expected from Regnier, charged as he was with incompatible functions?

  • What could he achieve against the English in Portugal?

  • What could be more iniquitous than to attack me without a declaration of war?

  • Besides, what could be meant by the reasonable equivalent from England?

  • Besides, what could I add to the remarks I made upon his receiving the letters of Louis XVIII.

  • Fair, rich, prosperous--what could a poor creature like myself do for her?

  • If he should be a prisoner when his brother should require his assistance, what could be done?

  • Once more, what could I have been thinking of?

  • It was an instance of what could be accomplished by governmental action.

  • What could he have accomplished compared with what Mr. Roosevelt has accomplished?

  • What could he do to move this crowd and definitely to win over public opinion?

  • What could he say to her now, after all he had said formerly, when he held her hands as he kissed her hair beside her cheeks?

  • What could I say to cheer his spirits in that Indian language, which has few or no words to express kindly feelings?

  • And when I spoke, it was not without doubt and hesitation: our bliss in those silent moments had been so complete, what could speaking do but make it less!

  • What could I do so long after you were bitten?

  • What could be better than to have all the fun of discovering South Africa without the disgusting necessity of landing there?

  • What could be more glorious than to brace one's self up to discover New South Wales and then realize, with a gush of happy tears, that it was really old South Wales.

  • What could be the nature of the thing which one could abuse first because it would not fight, and second because it was always fighting?

  • What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined with all the humane security of coming home again?

  • What could be more dreary than final interviews?

  • What could be a happier gift in a companion than a quick, fanciful mind which saved one repetitions and reflected one's thought on a polished, elegant surface?

  • An American jeune fille--what could be better than that?

  • What could be a finer thing to live with than a high spirit attuned to softness?

  • I did it a little, just as a start, but of course there's no end to what could be done.

  • What could not a man of real brain, of real breadth and energy and force of character, do in London with two hundred thousand pounds?

  • What could you do that you don't do, or couldn't do, now?

  • What could a man say who had an opportunity to simply stretch forth his hand and take possession of a fortune without risk of any kind and without wronging any one or attaching the least taint of dishonor to his name?

  • I did not think much of the idea, for if the law could not help me, what could an individual do who had not even anything to do with either making the laws or executing them?

  • Then, if moral courage is not the requisite quality, what could it have been that this stout-hearted Slade lacked?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what could" 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:
    full report; pretty lady; what applies; what cause; what dost; what effect; what evidence; what has; what has been called; what hope; what house; what king; what little; what parts; what people; what profit; what proportion; what shall; what things; what thou; what value; what were; what you have said; what you might call; whatever happened; whatever the