why
IPA: wˈaɪ
noun
- Reason.
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A young heifer.
- Alternative form of wye; the name of the Latin-script letter Y. [The name of the Latin-script letter Y.]
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To ask (someone) the question "why?".
adverb
- (interrogative) For what cause, reason, or purpose.
- Introducing a complete question.
- With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.
- Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).
- Introducing a noun or other phrase.
- (relative) For which cause, reason, or purpose.
- (fused relative) The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
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Examples of "why" in Sentences
- "But why -- _why_ --" Mrs. Whitney squeaked and panted, and her breath failed.
- I _know_ why you were at Perry's Little Log Cabin, and _why_ you frequent Hernando's Hideaway.
- But why, said I, does this khanum -- (pointing to the unveiled one) -- why does she hold me so long in suspense?
- Yeah, the pillow is spelled wrong, but why are pillows the enemy and for goodness sakes *why* do we need enough self discipline to stay away from them?
- The collector knows what he wants, and why he wants it, and that _why_ does not entirely depend on exteriors, though he may have his whim as to that also.
- And hence, why those bingo points were expanded from a black humour joke into an explanation for each point that explains *why* they are ineffective arguments, complete with further reading.
- I cant do that anymore, and profits I make during the year either go to an accountant or the Canadian Government...why not let me dontate..why not let me decide...there are 1000's like me who just move or go underground.
- True true true…and why is it that ‘network news’ seem so upset in a concern-troll like way about Arm-a-dipshitwad stealing an election when they had no concern at all about Bush/Chaney stealing elections here at home..why?
- After spending weeks in teaching them, and fortunes on pieces of sugar, why, before an audience, will they insist on ringing the bell when they are told to shut the door? and when you ask them to sit up and beg, _why_ do they die for the Queen?
- I cant understand why they even wanna pump the money back into the companies that are part just one part of course of the cause for all this mess..why dont they put the money in the hands of the American people and let us decide our fate..instead of our crooked greedy politicians.
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