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How to use whichever in a sentence

40 example sentences · determiner, pronoun

Whichever means which ever; emphatic form of 'which'. Example: “Good heavens! Whichever button did you press to make that happen?!”

Examples of whichever by meaning

determinerWhich ever; emphatic form of 'which'.

  • Good heavens! Whichever button did you press to make that happen?!

determinerRegardless of the ... that; no matter which.

  • It won't work, whichever buttons you press.
  • Whichever book you borrow, be sure to return it to the library on time.

determinerAny or either ... that; the ... that.

  • Choose whichever card you like.
  • Borrow whichever books interest you.
  • I'll buy whichever shirt is cheapest.

determinerAccording to or depending upon which.

  • I'll buy the red shirt or the blue shirt, whichever one is cheaper.
  • If the work is of joint authorship, the copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author who first dies, or upon the death of the author who dies last, whichever period is longer.

pronounWhich ever; emphatic form of 'which'.

  • These chocolates all look delicious. Whichever shall I choose?

pronounIrrespective of the one(s) that; no matter which one(s).

  • Whichever you pick, be content with it.

pronounAny or either one(s) that; the one(s) that.

  • I have a few books; please borrow whichever interest you.
  • They have lots of shirts, but I'll buy whichever is cheapest.
  • Whichever of you gets here first will get the prize.

pronounAny or either one(s).

  • I don't mind which you have. Take whichever.

More sentences with whichever

  • Whichever queue contains the least items by the time this logic branch is reached will be executed first.From the entry least
  • When you buy the wine tonight, pick up some screw caps in addition to whichever corked bottles you buy.From the entry screw cap
  • In California the credit card companies must issue a credit card in a person's birth name or married name, whichever the customer prefers.From the entry birth name
  • Baby birds are known for a propensity to imprint; they tend to imprint on whichever creatures they perceive to be their parents — including humans doing wildlife rescue!From the entry imprint
  • Instead, it will collect 10% – or $10, whichever is greater – to recover the overpayment.2024 March 29, Tami Luhby, “Social Security slashes amount of overpayments beneficiaries must pay back”, in CNN. From the entry automatically
  • And for maintenance of pointwork, a six-platform service can be operated whichever throat is under possession.2020 March 25, William Barter, “HS2: Euston or Old Oak Common?”, in Rail, page 58. From the entry pointwork
  • Whichever exit you emerge from, at whichever station, you are immediately lost.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry uncrossable
  • Whichever downtown you choose, you'll practice your own version of schlepping.2006, Kyle Ezell, Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel…. From the entry schlep
  • It was a waiting game, and whichever waited the longer was bound to win.1914, Jack London, “The Siege of the Lancashire Queen”, in Tales of the Fish Patrol. From the entry waiting game
  • Whichever it is, you can be forgiven for arching an eyebrow at an infrastructure company being placed in overall control.2024 March 6, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Who will run our railways?”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 3. From the entry arch
  • He’d taken to rewiping whichever cups I’d dried.2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 164. From the entry rewipe
  • Bobs or vegana, whichever will it be?2018, “Bitch Lasagna”, PewDiePie (lyrics). From the entry vegana
  • Whichever one kills the most birds!” “Soup or salad?2017 May 21, “Stupid Watergate”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 13, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry baggage
  • Whichever helm Richard chose to wear, it might have had a keyhole at the top to allowed insignia to be inserted.2008, Josephine Wilkinson, Richard III: The Young King to be, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN. From the entry standard
  • Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge.2007, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007. From the entry quidditch
  • Lacrosse players (or playas, whichever you prefer) hover on the right side of the bar, near the entrance.2006, Natalie Krinsky, Chloe Does Yale, page 38. From the entry lacrosstitute
  • Served with French or freedom bread, whichever is available.2004 August 11, “Chef Todd Misener began his career as a dishwasher”, in Northwest Florida Daily News, page D5. From the entry freedom bread
  • Then here's a collection to last you a lifetime, or until you've driven your parents and friends crazy, whichever comes first.1997, Sterling Publishing Company Staff, Fun with Little Giants: Little Giant Book of Knock-Knocks and Little Giant Book of Optical…. From the entry knock-knock
  • It was the first contest to employ a "lock-out device": whichever contestant buzzed in first automatically shut the other out.1979, Maxene Fave, Television Game Show Hosts: Biographies of 32 Stars, page 124. From the entry buzz in
  • Whichever of these methods of manipulative reduction is used, a simple test for reduction, the Leadbetter heel-palm test, can be applied.1957, William E. Kenney, Carroll B.. Larson, Orthopedics for the General Practitioner, page 219. From the entry heel-palm
  • As we go to press, we learn that Helen Self will be the PING PONG Commissioner or Commissioneress, whichever you prefer.1940, Norcrafter, page 26. From the entry commissioneress
  • But he wouldn’t call her sister anything but Miss Smith—or Jones or Montmorency—whichever it was.” Fred looked doubtful, and Mrs.a. 1918, William De Morgan, chapter V, in The Old Madhouse, London: William Heinemann, published 1919, pages 52–53. From the entry Christian-name
  • Since I will never get an uber, the ride is just never available whichever city I am in, bhai auto zindabad !2023 August 1, Swastika Mukherjee (@swastika24), Twitter. From the entry zindabad
  • What society classifies as “credible” is almost always a product of whichever social demographic happens to be economically dominant at the time of the classification.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN. From the entry credible
  • A bristle was a loaded or crooked dice. lt was specially weighted which meant that it fell on whichever number the bristler chose.2004, Aaron Wilkes, Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation: Britain 1485-1750, →ISBN. From the entry bristler
  • Getting clothing dirty is a daily habit and whichever day one selects for getting it undirty will provide the same amount of toil.1950 November 9, “A Lady’s Complaint”, in The Post-Star, volume XLVI, number 300, Glens Falls, N.Y., page 4. From the entry undirty

Meaning of whichever

  1. determiner Which ever; emphatic form of 'which'.
  2. determiner Regardless of the ... that; no matter which.
  3. determiner Any or either ... that; the ... that.

Full definition of whichever

Questions about whichever in a sentence

How do you use whichever in a sentence?
Whichever is used as a determiner and pronoun. For example: “Good heavens! Whichever button did you press to make that happen?!”
What is a short sentence with whichever?
“Borrow whichever books interest you.”
What does whichever mean?
Whichever means which ever; emphatic form of 'which'.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whichever (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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