Example sentences for: wherewithal

How can you use “wherewithal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The National Security Council was created in 1947 largely as a result of lobbying from the Pentagon for a forum where the military could object if they thought the State Department was setting national objectives that the United States did not have the wherewithal to pursue.

  • African slaves brought with them the wherewithal to produce tambours, wood covered in animal skin to create drums, and maracas, dried gourds filled with seeds.

  • I must express a prejudice, however, for the benefit of all who have a personal computer with a CD-ROM and who have the wherewithal to acquire the OED2e on CD-ROM: there is nothing like it in terms of ease of access, speed, convenience (as compared with hoisting one or more volumes of the OED2e or NSOED every time one wants to look something up).

  • Where no one had the wherewithal to stand up for it--say, in rural Alabama-- Loving was flouted.

  • The oil company is blessed with very little debt, but it's grown relatively slowly since the spinoff, because it doesn't have many reserves and lacks the wherewithal for massive exploration projects.


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