Example sentences for: whys

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

  • (Click here for my discussion of the whys and wherefores a few weeks ago.)

  • Sooner or later she's going to have to investigate the "whys" within herself for her attraction to them.

  • Claiming that "we are products not just of evolution, but also of what we imagine ourselves to be," Culturebox decries the classroom teaching of the evolutionary roots of rape (even as a prelude to explaining the hows and whys of resisting those roots) on the grounds that "[t]he first message to be drilled into boys' heads [would be]: We believe you're genetically programmed to rape."

  • The King James Bible, which contains many such archaisms, has preserved them for modern English; wherefore more commonly appears in the tautology whys and wherefores .

  • The ability to discover important issues not preconceived, to provide rich descriptions, to challenge employers' stock answers, and to get at "hows" and "whys" of their actions, are some of the several utilities of the qualitative case study approach as detailed below.


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