How to Use whose in a Sentence

whose

adjective
  • As for whose pockets make for the toughest dwelling space?
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 2020-02-08
  • His coach, whose team has won only one of its last six games, disagreed.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 2019-08-25
  • The second is a solar farm whose details haven’t been made public yet.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 2019-09-13
  • Take a cue from the military, whose lives depend on their firearms going bang.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 2020-01-17
  • Lamps whose shades are handcrafted from leaves in the Philippines, all one of a kind.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 2019-12-02
  • My close neighbor is a grandmother whose son and granddaughter have moved in with her.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2020-06-02
  • The motorist, whose name and gender were not released, crashed the vehicle and fled on foot.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2019-12-01
  • Seventy-four cases involve people whose races weren't known to the city.
    — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 2020-04-17
  • The spike in oil prices weighed on shares in airlines, whose operations can be hurt by any rise in the price of fuel.
    — Stan Choe and Alex Veiga, SFChronicle.com, 2019-09-16
  • All the matching takes place on your phone, not on a central server, and the servers don’t even know whose phones are getting alerts.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 2020-04-20
  • Damien Birkel has seen what can happen to people whose lives have been upended by a layoff.
    — Anne Fisher, Fortune, 2020-04-17
  • That includes many, many talented makers whose offices or studios have been shut down.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 2020-03-23
  • If there is a football this season, the teams that do well will likely be those whose coaches made the most of their time spent working from home.
    — cleveland, 2020-04-05
  • And for those of us who are alums, and Oregonians, and parents whose children look up to you, that means a lot.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 2019-12-31
  • Before they were used to hurt or kill people, each of these guns was assigned to a security guard whose job was to protect the public.
    — USA Today, 2019-12-16
  • And a picture book describes what life is like for a child whose father is being held in an immigrant detention center.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 2019-12-21
  • Capping Netflix for a month just puts more wiggle room in the hands of people whose less reliable networks might need it the most.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2020-03-23
  • Here is a look at reactions around D-FW, and a tribute to athletes whose careers came to an end.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 2020-04-18
  • The same can likely be said for January Jones, who plays Kat's mom and whose character used to be a pro skater as well.
    — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 2020-01-01
  • For decades, city officials turned a blind eye to the Rikers gulag, whose crumbling buildings housed a culture of chaos and violence.
    — Nick Pinto, The New Republic, 2020-04-06
  • Starting in 2001, people whose listed state changed were much more likely to switch from states that charged an estate tax to ones that did not than the reverse.
    — The Economist, 2019-11-30
  • Researchers may yet find these laws reflected in other species whose calls have yet to be recorded and analyzed, Favaro explains to the Guardian.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 2020-02-07
  • The four-year graduation rate for students who were first in their families to go to college was more than 20% below that of kids whose parents had gone to college.
    — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 2019-09-13
  • But the man whose work inspired it all — author George R.R. Martin — didn't seem too upset by the show's conclusion.
    — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 2019-08-18
  • Screenwriter and producer Liz Tigelaar—whose past credits include shows like and —is the creator and showrunner.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2020-02-20
  • The same evening, the Toronto man, whose mother had come from Hong Kong two weeks earlier, went to the hospital with feverish symptoms.
    — Betsy McCaughey, WSJ, 2020-01-25
  • When it was founded, NATO was one part of a strategy whose goal was the prevention of another global war.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2019-12-14
  • Jones, whose work on race earned her the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, was driving force behind the 1619 Project.
    — J. Brian Charles, Vox, 2019-08-18
  • And 18-year-old Kayla Moore, a student from Maryland whose parents exposed her to '50s music and fashion at an early age.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 2020-02-21
  • Maybe Svitolina, whose one upset of Williams in five previous matchups came at the 2016 Rio Olympics, was too passive, content to stay back and try to chase down everything sent her way.
    — Howard Fendrich, Houston Chronicle, 2019-09-06

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