Word Finder - whom

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(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.

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(relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.

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He's a person with whom I work. (defining)

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(fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.

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To whom it may concern, all business of John Smith Ltd. has now been transferred to Floggitt & Runne.

Whom will you send for?

Actually, she knew very little about the man with whom she had promised to spend the summer.

To whom did you apply?

He saw a gentleman whom he presumed to be the director, and told him about Helen.

At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew.

Whom are they firing at?

Here in dwells an old man with whom I would like to converse.

How different if must be, he thought, making love with someone for whom you really cared.

He saw the kind faces of those whom he loved.

Whom have you come from?

She was surprised to see three people within, none of whom looked like they fit in the refined, elegant spaces of the parlor.

It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile!

What are we scared at and of whom are we afraid?

He was peppered with questions from the rescuers, many of whom he recognized, but he held responses to a negative shake of his head and Billy Langstrom's name.

The famous men of whom I have told you in this story are commonly called the Seven Wise Men of Greece.

Whom shall I announce?

He said, "They are mine, they are personal and I will choose with whom to share them."

He whirled to face the man of whom he thought.

I ran it by Quinn and Martha, both of whom kicked the decision back to me.

Dean felt equally acrimonious toward the overbearing state official whom he hadn't seen since the winter and who, in Dean's mind, had no business being back in Ouray.

Fear fluttered through her, and her gaze flew to Kris, whom she trusted little more than his sadistic brother.

The adobe structure was guarded by several more Guardians, none of whom looked like Damian from the distance.

With whom am I speaking?

Whom have they brought?

See whom she looks like!

To whom should I confess my blunder?

The people whom they met gazed at them and wondered who they could be.

This charcoal man, whom I know very well, ran past me with a child in his arms.

When Pierre saw the Emperor he was coming out accompanied by two merchants, one of whom Pierre knew, a fat otkupshchik.

Her actions toward Julie, her mother and to Betsy with whom she shares a special relationship are markedly different.

She felt agitated and tormented, and the cause of this was Kuragin whom she could not help watching.

I don't care to whom you've betrayed me.

Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister.

But to whom should I say that?

An old peasant whom Prince Andrew in his childhood had often seen at the gate was sitting on a green garden seat, plaiting a bast shoe.

However, practically speaking, it sometimes has a corrupting influence on those whom it empowers to act for the state.

Me whom everyone is so fond of?

One real runaway slave, among the rest, whom I helped to forward toward the north star.

Why was Napoleon III a criminal when he was taken prisoner at Boulogne, and why, later on, were those criminals whom he arrested?

And the point is that we knew whom he had it from.

The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dolokhov.

You may go and kill whom you please, but I don't want to do so anymore!

Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem?

Rostov, in dismay, began justifying himself, but seeing the kindly, jocular face of the general, he took him aside and in an excited voice told him the whole affair, asking him to intercede for Denisov, whom the general knew.

Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will...

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled.

It's that protege of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskaya, that Anna Mikhaylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the infamous, vile woman!

Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.

Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day.