Example sentences for: whom

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

  • The problem is especially severe among men in their 50s, of whom 6,103 killed themselves in 1998, an increase of 45.

  • This is a character to whom it would be easy to condescend, but Wahlberg captures his nobility without skimping on his stupidity.

  • It was created to meet an urgent need for a common language between those using the European-derived Afrikaans, English, German, or Portuguese on the one hand and, on the other, the speakers of the numerous African tongues from the Angoni in Malawi to the Zulus in Natal, all of whom worked together in the diamond diggings, gold mines, and farms of the whole of southern Africa, including Mozambique and what are now Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.

  • Some form of privatization might substantially aid the first to retire, but later retirees--precisely those people whom the current system is also most likely to shortchange--get left behind.

  • Would that it were possible to distill the vagaries of English compounding into a five-page table: the editors are forced to offer comments like equal titles of functions (equality is not always easy to decide), words go together naturally (naturally for whom?), etc., and even then to include a column of exceptions.


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