whose
[huːz]
Definition:
1. Used in questions to ask who something belongs to.
2. Used to say which person or thing you mean.
Use 'whose' in a sentence:
- 1. Their business came from a few big publishers, all of whose books they bound.
- 2. Whose daughter is she?
- 3. Choose a stylist recommended by someone whose hair you like.
- 4. I can't remember whose idea it was for us to meet again.
- 5. Whose turn is it to deal?
- 6. I'm wondering whose mother she is then.
- 7. Whose was the better performance?
- 8. Whose side are you on anyway?
- 9. My mother, whose guiding principle in life was doing right, had a far greater influence on me.
- 10. He is a veteran parliamentarian whose views enjoy widespread respect.
- 11. "Whose is this?"—"It's mine."
- 12. All of these are useful breeds whose potentiality has not been realized.
- 13. He is the guy whose name is on everyone's lips at the moment.
- 14. The documentary caused a lot of bad feeling, not least among the workers whose lives it described.
- 15. Whose turn is it to cook?
- 16. Whose turn is it to brew up?
- 17. Now whose go is it?
- 18. The workers get rid of those whose work is not up to the mark.
- 19. She's an artist whose work I really admire.
- 20. Jupiter's moon Io, whose density is 3.5 grams per cubic centimetre, is all rock.
- 21. 'It wasn't your fault, John.' — 'Whose, then?'
- 22. Whose team are you on?
- 23. I can't remember whose idea it was.
- 24. Whose team are you in?
- 25. Whose go is it?
- 26. "It wasn't your fault, John."—"Whose, then?"
- 27. The gunman, whose mask had slipped, fled.
- 28. It's the house whose door is painted red.
- 29. His mother, whose influence on his development was outstanding, came of a distinguished American family.
- 30. Research suggests that children whose parents split up are more likely to drop out of high school.
- 31. Whose side are you on?
- 32. Whose house is that?
- 33. Whose car were they in?
- 34. It was an actor whose name escapes me for the moment.
- 35. Whose right of way is it?
- 36. So whose party was it last night?
- 37. I wondered whose the coat was.
- 38. Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.
- 39. I wonder whose this is.
- 40. He's a man whose opinion I respect.
- 41. Whose is that farm over yonder?
- 42. 'Whose is this?' — 'It's mine.'
