How to Use whole in a Sentence

whole

1 of 3 adjective

• She read the whole book in one day.
• The whole evening was a great success.
• We cooked a whole chicken.
• I've been waiting my whole life for this.
• We decided to forget the whole thing.
• It's been a whole week since I've seen him.
• The doctor assured me that the whole procedure would only take a few minutes.
• The whole place was remodeled. It looks great now.
• The community center offers a whole range of programs.
• I spent the whole summer traveling through Europe.
• The whole intention of the movie is to stoke the outrage.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
• The whole world knows this song and many don't know who sang it in the first place.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• The whole lot of them would run to greet us, eager for the scraps and then for the feed.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Here’s how Minj and the whole family enjoy the dish to the fullest.
  — Michelle Konstantinovsky, SELF, 27 Nov. 2023
• On There Will Be Blood, that was the centerpiece of the whole movie.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2024
• There’s a whole scene where the film takes the time to explain BPMs to the audience!
  — Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Pitchfork, 16 Nov. 2023
• This simple step imbues the whole drink with the spice’s warmth.
  — Inés Anguiano, Bon Appétit, 15 Nov. 2023
• Karen got to come hang at the ranch, and she’s loved by the whole family.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• Does this mean the Fairest title had been her whole aim in life?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
• The original oak floors stretch through the whole first floor.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 19 Feb. 2023
• In the van Haarlem, the whole scene is overcrowded and stiff.
  — Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• Greenway Place was the kind of place where the whole village raised the children.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• The station closed a few months later, in 1993, along with the whole line from Baku to Nakhchivan.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• The whole thing was designed that Louis and Natalia are the heroes of this.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
• And throughout the whole show, Lorraine just ain’t gonna give her that.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• One of the spacecraft’s legs snagged the surface and the whole thing tipped over, landing on its side.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
• The whole point is in and out, enjoyment, laugh your head off, and get some thrills.
  — Derek Lawrence, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
• The greediest thieves go for the whole bike, and their tactics might trick you.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• For longer storage, bake, cool, and freeze for up to three months, whether whole or sliced.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2023
• So, it’s been a blast, getting to take on this whole new persona.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023

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whole

2 of 3 noun

• In the end, the sum of the parts were greater than the whole.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• Young men are, on the whole, shifting further to the right.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• Sometimes the whole is worth more than the sum of the parts, and that's the secret of this Passat.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• And on the whole, the school feels much more vibrant and useful than the present-day one.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• Aging Out of the Sport On the whole, hunting safety seems to be on the rise.
  — Russell Worth Parker, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2023
• That’s the size of two giraffes in a year and the whole of the Eiffel Tower in a lifetime.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• And those virtues and talents combine to form a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023
• The furniture industry on the whole is in a state of flux.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• The whole leading up in my career, stress yes, but fun, too.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
• On the whole, though, Google should be lauded for this promise.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2023
• Even a few degrees across the entire globe means a great deal more heat in the system as a whole.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• When the pizza lovers position their arms side by side, the halves form a gooey whole.
  — Leslie Katz, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The retail sector as a whole faces a more difficult year than the last two.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
• Regulators approved more video games in the first half of this year than in the whole of 2022.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 27 Dec. 2023
• Shauna [played by Lynskey] has a lot on her plate right now and is dealing with that for the whole of the season.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2023
• Thanks to a still-healthy job market, the finances of US households remain in good shape on the whole.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
• On the whole this weekend, the Dodgers’ pitching wasn’t terrible.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Kohl designed its space as well, and the project on the whole feels more personal, more grounded.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• The prospects who do make it through, on the whole, tend to offer a talent that is both ready-made and irresistible.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Amazon as a whole has been slowing its pace of growth in the past several months.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• But there’s also a case to be made that A.I. can’t always do the whole of a creative person’s job.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• That’s a lower share than what’s seen throughout the western region and the nation as a whole.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• But on the whole, the teammates felt nonchalant: None of them expected to win.
  — Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
• On Wall Street, the perception also had grown that the parts of Gulf & Western were more valuable than the whole.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• And so, that sent me down the whole of kind of like getting into fight club and like nightcap and others that are like that.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• The narrative is drawn out — just the scenes in space could occupy the whole of a feature film — and the pace is what many will think of as slow.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Picture is a space-eye view of our planet that takes in the whole of its 4.5-billion-year history.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• On the whole, however, the ex-president played a useful role in Nicaragua that year.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• An authority figure might not be telling you the whole, up-to-date truth.
  — Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023

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whole

3 of 3 adverb

• The frog swallowed the fly whole.
• We cooked the chicken whole.
• Can Bush change the record books and make USC whole again?
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2021
• First, a frog snags the beetle and gulps it down whole.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• One is reserved for the sauce; the other is served whole.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• The spices come whole, so throw in one of our best pepper mills to go with it.
  — Samantha MacAvoy, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
• The butcher case has whole smoked turkey breasts and slabs of ribs ready to heat and eat.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2021
• The squabs can be served whole or cut in half with kitchen shears; or, use a sharp knife to carve the meat away from the breast cage.
  — Daniel Boulud, ELLE Decor, 17 Aug. 2011
• Most snakes cannot take bites and must engulf their prey whole.
  — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
• These two are sold whole, but Mr. & Mrs. Pickle sells sweet and spicy chips, as well.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Note: For the subtlest flavor, leave the garlic cloves whole.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• To serve, either leave the tofu planks whole or slice them on the bias, and spoon over the sauce and vegetables.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 5 July 2020
• Divide whole grilled fish into 6- to 8-ounce servings and pass the green sauce.
  — SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• Fish, whether whole or cut, should be firm and shiny, but never soft, mushy, sticky or oily, signs of age.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
• More than anyone else, Ms. Waters spread the word about the sweet, earthy charms of garlic whole-roasted in the oven.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• This is why the Justice for Black Farmers Act is needed to make the farmers whole again.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
• The hope is that, with time, these productions can help make the industry whole again.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
• Mina and Sanniti jar them whole, which can be a bit messier to use.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• The chiles can be scattered whole over the dish or blended into the lime juice for an even more fiery effect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• Charles is no longer the man who talks to his plants but the figurehead who must keep the kingdom whole during a tricky time.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• So much so that Dean does a whole fake proposal (ew, men never do this) with a key to his house.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2018
• The Prestons are just happy to have their family whole again.
  — Abbey Roy, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2022
• What would make San Diego fans whole before opening day?
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• That whole dry, breakage thing continued to get worse as the days progressed.
  — Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, SELF, 18 July 2017
• The prison had obtained whole-head lettuce that was consumed by the prisoners.
  — Lena H. Sun and Joel Achenbach, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The face should be presented whole, to the extent possible.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 July 2022
• For as sleek as the iPhone 12 already looks, an iPhone without a notch takes things to a whole another level.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 19 Apr. 2021
• Tubers can be planted whole or cut into pieces with at least one eye per piece.
  — Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2021
• Gokhman and his colleagues knew that the true test of their method would be when researchers unearthed a Denisovan bone whole enough to measure.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2019
• Justice would be restoring Daunte to life and making the Wright family whole again.
  — Aya Elamroussi, Ray Sanchez and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 24 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024