Word Finder - whose

definition

(interrogative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom.

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Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?

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(relative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom.

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This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly.

Whose goals are we talking about here, mine or yours?

So whose bones are they?

He would understand on whose side justice lies.

Whose child is it? they asked him.

She meant what she said; she had no friends, but a long time ago, she'd had one whose family had a summer cottage near the coast.

And whose sheep are these?

The web is a force for truth, connectedness, understanding, and communication—all things whose absence can trigger war.

Two hundred years ago there lived in Boston a little boy whose name was Benjamin Franklin.

The educated man is the man whose expression is educated.

I buy my eggs from a farmer whose chickens roam free.

Whose problem will it be?

She looked up at Jule, whose features were grim.

But the fourth lawyer, whose name was Abraham Lincoln, stopped.

When asked the colour of some one whose occupation she did not know she seemed bewildered, and finally said "blue."

At a little distance from the palace we might easily mistake it for a mountain whose peaks were mounting heavenward to receive the last kiss of the departing day.

The sailors agreed; for they were anxious to hear the musician whose songs were famous all over the world.

He did not know whose it was; it belonged to the pond.

I asked him whose subject he was, and he jabbered in his own way.

To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark except to Pierre and Helene, whose presence he seemed not to notice.

And the people whose houses or lives it saves?

I regard my pupil as a free and active being, whose own spontaneous impulses must be my surest guide.

I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with blood.

The man hiding in the corner of her mind, he whose death plagued Damian for thousands of years.

It was Lon, whose gaze went to her as he approached.

Lon knelt by a vamp whose chest still moved.

Instincts took her in the direction of the stream, and she reached the top of a shallow ravine in whose valley the stream flowed.

It certainly is fair to look at that class by whose labor the works which distinguish this generation are accomplished.

I knew immediately whose bones they were.

In 2005, rice became the first crop plant whose complete genome had been compiled.

What could all that matter in comparison with the will of God, without Whose care not a hair of man's head can fall?

Pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange expression she did not understand, and lay down again.

Claire was all that remained of his brother, and he'd loved her out of respect for a man whose death he'd never been able to accept.

Unlike the others whose paths she'd crossed earlier, he didn't ignore her.

Martha, whose stay with them was at first a simple good deed, then a delight and now so very much more.

It was a good old Friend, whom everybody loved--a-white-haired, pleasant-faced minister, whose words were always wise.

In front, at a weary gallop and using his leather whip, rode an officer, disheveled and drenched, whose trousers had worked up to above his knees.

Through the smoke, as he approached the gate, Petya saw Dolokhov, whose face was of a pale-greenish tint, shouting to his men.

Halfway across stood Prince Nesvitski, who had alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the railings.

If it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt I could bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee.

She twisted in her chair to see a man near the dark windows whose eyes were the color of her bright purple Easter dress.

Her tortured thoughts went to the thousands of men, killed by the only family she'd known, whose souls were trapped for eternity beneath the ground.

A long time ago there lived a poor slave whose name was Aesop. He was a small man with a large head and long arms.

They can be connected to sensors whose sensitivity dwarfs anything a human can do.

I know of those whose serene and wise speculations on this theme would soon reveal the limits of his mind's range and hospitality.

Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well.

Whenever an event occurs a man appears or men appear, by whose will the event seems to have taken place.

In Scotland there once lived a poor shepherd whose name was James Hogg.

Rostov reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace.

When the kitchen door opened suddenly, they jerked apart and turned guilty faces to Sarah, whose expression made it clear she had seen and comprehended their actions.