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