adverb
definition
(interrogative) When ever: emphatic form of when.
example
Whenever will I find time to finish that jigsaw?
definition
At any time.
example
Feel free to visit whenever.
conjunction
definition
At any time that.
example
Visit whenever you want to.
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At the (single) time that, no matter when.
example
Tomorrow I'll get up whenever the sun rises.
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Every time that.
example
Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch.
definition
Regardless of the time that.
example
Income must be reported in the period in which it is earned, whenever payment is actually received.
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When.
example
Whenever I was a child, I lived in Arkansas.
Examples of whenever in a Sentence
He snorted whenever he mentioned him.
Just remember, I'll always be there – whenever you need me.
I will bring you back here whenever you want.
Sure, whenever you're ready.
He'd just appear whenever he felt like it.
Whenever she seemed to be getting herself under control, a fresh bout of sobs would begin.
Whenever you're hungry, you can come by.
Tell me why you always stare at that map whenever I call.
Whenever he saw her art, new feelings emerged.
Whenever we needed a few moments alone, a dog walk was suggested and eagerly accepted.
We have simply allowed you to see her whenever you want.
She'd stopped gritting her teeth whenever he called her that and—God help her!—she'd even started responding.
I can see her whenever I want to.
You could walk around without your mask and feed whenever you were hungry.
He's always been secretive, and whenever I ask him, he just tells me it's something I don't want to be involved in.
Any thought she had of trying to make it here faded whenever she saw the desert or thought about how Darkyn manipulated her.
They let her feel the animals whenever it was safe.
Of course it can, we will play it whenever you like.
I think I can teach myself how to keep from seeing deaths whenever I touch someone.
After a week of knowing him, she already had to concentrate hard to resist leaning into him whenever he was around.
Of course, whenever you like.
Whenever the prudes mount a censorship offensive, their favorite line of attack is suicide.
He put his arms around her, "Of course you can drive them, whenever you want."
I'm getting out of here. If what she says is true, you can come visit whenever you want.
And the corporal leaned against the door and offered Pierre his pipe, though whenever he offered it Pierre always declined it.
That means you can snack on fresh veggies whenever you're feeling hungry.
Whenever. We'll be here all day.
Air cooling is adopted whenever possible.
As for Natasha, for a long while Nicholas wondered and laughed whenever he looked at her.
Whenever an event occurs a man appears or men appear, by whose will the event seems to have taken place.
To protect you, your mind backtracks whenever you feel overwhelmed, overly stressed, mentally threatened.
Sarah has fangs and has to be careful not to crush me whenever we hug 24/7.
Far in advance of his contemporaries on this question, whenever his personal action is don.
The company had by now also built a windmill close by to supplement grinding power whenever necessary.
He worked many years as a blacksmith and studied books whenever he had a spare moment.
She was delighted with the orchestra at the hotel, and whenever the music began she danced round the room, hugging and kissing every one she happened to touch.
He tries his best even when he fails; he has a good soul and helps people whenever he can.
The fact the mysterious creatures could find him whenever they wanted made him cautious about outright opposing them.
Can you turn into a wolf whenever you want?
Xander was in the gym whenever she was, no matter what time of day or night she went.
I might keep you around today so I can tap that ass whenever I want.
The third player, who does any measuring that may be necessary to determine which bowl or bowls may be nearest the jack, holds almost as responsible a position as the captain, whose place, in fact, he takes whenever the skip is temporarily absent.
The ministers, whether members of parliament or not, have the right to sit in both chambers and can address the house whenever they choose, though a minister may only vote in the chamber of which he happens to be a member.
An intelligent creature, or "demon," possessed of unlimited powers of vision, is placed in charge of each door, with instructions to open the door whenever a particle in A comes towards it with more than a certain velocity V, and to keep it closed against all particles in A moving with less than this velocity, but, on the other hand, to open the door whenever a particle in B approaches it with less than a certain velocity v, which is not greater than V, and to keep it closed against all particles in B moving with a greater velocity than this.
In the preface he states the position that "whenever, then, two gases are allowed to mix without the performance of work, there is dissipation of energy, and an opportunity of doing work at the expense of low temperature heat has been for ever lost."
Hughes, while engaged in experiments upon a Bell telephone in an electric circuit, discovered that a peculiar noise was produced whenever two hard electrodes, such as two wires, were - drawn across each other, or were made to touch each other with a variable degree of firmness.
The former category comprises the maintenance of provincial roads, bridges and watercourse embankments;, secondary education, whenever this is n.ot provided for by private, institutions or by the state (elementary education being maintained by the communes), and the maintenance of foundlings and pauper lunatics.
In 1847 an altazimuth was erected, designed by Airy to enable observations of the moon to be made not only on the meridian, but whenever she might be visible.
They were enduring of toil, hunger, and cold whenever fortune laid it on them, given to hunting and hawking, delighting in the pleasure of horses, and of all the weapons and garb of war.
This last is a word which is often greatly abused; but, whenever it is used with any regard to its true meaning, it is a word strictly political, implying a particular form of government.