Explore Whose through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Whose in a sentence
Whose meaning
- Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
- Of whom, belonging to whom.
- Of which, belonging to which.
Using Whose
- The main meaning on this page is: Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's. | Of whom, belonging to whom. | Of which, belonging to which.
- Possible Dutch translations are: van wie, wiens, wier.
- In the example corpus, whose often appears in combinations such as: and whose, whose father, whose mother.
Context around Whose
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Whose
- In this selection, "whose" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, series, venues, guy, love, pitches and work stand out and add context to how "whose" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include to venues whose pitches are and 1887 1853 whose work has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "whose" sits close to words such as coronavirus, movie and situation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with whose
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Knight wants to know whose game this is and tells Heyman to tell Reigns whose waiting for him at Crown Jewel. (21 words)
And in Mendelssohn’s case it was probably the disparagement by composer Wagner, whose politics we loathe but whose music we love. (22 words)
Jiraiya, an outlaw whose real name is unknown, was a heroic bandit whose deeds were similar to the Western heroic desperado Robin Hood. (23 words)
Back to Clark, the Associated Press National Player of the Year whose record-setting scoring in the tournament led Iowa to Sunday’s women’s championship game, and Butler, whose buzzer-beater on Saturday put San Diego State in tonight’s men’s title game. (45 words)
Maybe it was Noa Argamani, the recently freed 26-year-old woman, whose kidnapping was watched on video around the world; or maybe it is the Bibas babies, whose orange hair has become a symbol of those held captive. (39 words)
Notably, one demerit point is awarded to venues whose pitches are rated by the match referees as below average, while three and five demerit points are given to venues whose pitches are marked as poor and unfit, respectively. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
He’s the guy whose eyes inadvertently roll into the back of his head, whose voice goes up at the end of every sentence, and whose favourite colour is, naturally, black.
Back to Clark, the Associated Press National Player of the Year whose record-setting scoring in the tournament led Iowa to Sunday’s women’s championship game, and Butler, whose buzzer-beater on Saturday put San Diego State in tonight’s men’s title game.
Bradley Jaden is howlingly strong as ’s Wolf with proudly phallic tail; Janie Dee exquisitely nuanced in the bossa nova sendup (music by ) of the boy whose trousers are vermilion and whose friends call him Lillian.
Disney used a similar strategy recently with Disney+’s Star Wars series whose two-episode premiere was also made available on Hulu, and with the Disney+ original series whose entire first season was shared on both streamers.
It presents fluid characters whose love and self-loathing are complex and lived-in, and whose lives beat with the kind of vibrant humanity that certain political factions would rather see denied.
Jiraiya, an outlaw whose real name is unknown, was a heroic bandit whose deeds were similar to the Western heroic desperado Robin Hood.
Knight wants to know whose game this is and tells Heyman to tell Reigns whose waiting for him at Crown Jewel.
Leavitt's Law, as it is now called, lets scientists use Cepheids as "": objects whose intrinsic brightness is known, and therefore, whose distance can be calculated.
Mahomes — whose father, Pat, a former pitcher in the big leagues, is Black and whose mother, Randi, is white — has been candid about race issues in the N.F.L. as well.
My mother, at whose hands and in whose kitchen I learned to assemble ingredients to create many different baked goods, would probably roll over in her grave if she knew my baking practices now.
Notably, one demerit point is awarded to venues whose pitches are rated by the match referees as below average, while three and five demerit points are given to venues whose pitches are marked as poor and unfit, respectively.
Price (1887-1853), whose work has enjoyed a renaissance among audiences in recent years, was the first Black female composer whose work was performed by a major American symphony, the Chicago Symphony.
Those whose systolic blood pressure declined by 20 mmHg or more in the first 30 seconds after standing had a 22% higher risk of dementia compared to those whose blood pressure remained stable.
And in Mendelssohn’s case it was probably the disparagement by composer Wagner, whose politics we loathe but whose music we love.
Another artist whose insights informed the space was whose often-whimsical ledger drawings of modern life on and off the reservation, from dialysis hookups to Greyhound buses, now reside in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale.
As a person whose diet was largely beans until our workplace unionized, and whose diet is still full of beans due to my personal preferences, I had already reached many of these conclusions on my own.
Maybe it was Noa Argamani, the recently freed 26-year-old woman, whose kidnapping was watched on video around the world; or maybe it is the Bibas babies, whose orange hair has become a symbol of those held captive.
Orwell pointed out that countries such as the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands considered their colonies to be dependencies whose resources were available to the “democracies”, but whose “coloured inhabitants” lacked “the right to vote”.
The seeming frontrunner at the minute, whose fundraising had been nipping at Boebert’s heels, is a lawyer from Grand Junction whose image is the opposite of inflammatory.
They prove themselves, instead, to be true patriots, whose love for the Constitution and the rule of law holds greater sway than any loyalty to a party whose presidential candidate does not share these values.
Common combinations with whose
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: