How to Use whit in a Sentence

whit

noun
  • I care not a whit about what other people think.
  • The whit and the whoo are from different owls.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Most of these characters were set in stone four movies ago and haven’t evolved one whit.
    — Robert W. Butler, kansascity.com, 24 May 2017
  • Business leaders who have one whit of sense about them know better.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2020
  • People can show up with the most expensive gift and care not a whit about you.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Your children will not care one whit about your one-in-a-billion love affair.
    — Ask Amy, al, 29 May 2019
  • Miss Keaton…is not a whit like the flustered ingénue she was cast to play.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • This virus doesn’t care a whit about my politics or my religion.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 27 May 2020
  • Bubba loves her deeply, admires her just as much, and understands her not a whit.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
  • All were built on speed, defense and a deep bullpen with Herzog not caring a whit about home runs.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Koresh and his followers cared not a whit what the rest of the world thought and believed.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • When the weather turns sour, the Volvo 940 doesn't care one whit.
    — Dick Kelley, Car and Driver, 27 June 2023
  • This census might even reveal a few who don't care a whit about the city's professional sports teams.
    — David Isaacson, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Moreover, Trump cares not a whit about bringing drug traffickers to justice.
    — Peter Kornbluh, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • But the year is 1849, and Eliza’s preferences matter not a whit.
    — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Hank Aaron’s legacy as a player is not diminished one whit by the fact that his name is no longer atop a list of names and numbers.
    — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Many folk, less deserving than Stoppard, and with scarcely a whit of his charm, are greeted with godsends.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • An unconventional structure or new approach bothers them not a whit.
    — Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
  • This doesn’t detract a whit from its heart-breaking poignancy and the storm of emotions that leaves half the audience sobbing by the final scenes.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
  • Today's driver-assistance systems don't care one whit about the tires, which is a mistake, Bridgestone says.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Finley’s toughness never materializes, nor does a whit of wit.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • And the consensus among the political class is that nothing anyone says now matters a whit until after the midterms.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 8 May 2017
  • Not one whit, because Inception is first and foremost top-notch entertainment.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2020
  • But Hernández’s location at the precise moment the bullet landed should not matter one whit.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • His adoration, here as in all things natural, is infectious, although the birds themselves care not a whit for him, and isn’t that part of the wonder, the fun?
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • The gentle teasing of their peers — kids made popular by beauty, athletic feats or general coolness — bothers them not one whit.
    — Mary McNamara, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
  • But equivocation in a country that doesn’t care a whit if Shakespeare is still on the syllabus can easily pass unnoticed.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The fact that both substantively have major bipartisan accomplishments to their names matters not a whit.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021

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