How to use whom in a sentence

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More sentences with whom

• I have no quarrel with her; it’s her partner whom I dislike.From the entry quarrel
• In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.From the entry bear
• Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.From the entry report
• From those to whom much has been given much is expected.From the entry much
• He told me whom he saw, but it went in one ear and out the other.From the entry go in one ear and out the other
• May I inquire to whom I have the honor of speaking?From the entry inquire
• If you care about your reputation you ought to be careful whom you keep company with.From the entry keep company
• His desk afforded him a box seat to see who spoke to whom at the watercooler.From the entry box seat
• I've got three children, of whom all are studying medicine.From the entry all
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls.From the entry toll
• Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine, unlike Phillip, for whom the bar is practically a second home.From the entry unlike
• She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.From the entry disdainful
• Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.From the entry drum
• To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.From the entry coterminous
• The ding-a-ling from the fire truck somehow filled him with more dread than its horn blasts could: for whom does that bell toll?From the entry ding-a-ling
• Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.From the entry baptizeth
• The mother of the murdered man spoke directly to the man who took away her son, then addressed the judge, whom she trusted would impose the maximum sentence.From the entry take away
• I went to the beach to look at the sunbathers, at least some of whom went there to be looked at while they worked on their tans.From the entry sunbather
• Eighteen other people were shot at that event, six of whom died.2024 September 16, Gabrielle Giffords, “Gabby Giffords: It’s the Guns. It’s Always the Guns.”, in The New York Times. From the entry rationalization
• Who are the people around you with whom you feel most energized?2023, Patrick Williams, Diane S. Menendez, Becoming a Professional Life Coach. From the entry energized
• In some mentorship programs, the mentees get a say in whom they will be paired with.2022 November 29, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Must I Mentor a White Law Student When I Requested a Black Mentee?”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry mentee
• "With whom?" I asked with a simple, plain and teaseful smile.2022, Surya M Acharya, A Night in Noamundi - Robbery of Flesh, page 78. From the entry teaseful
• He’s an unabashed conservative whom the Bonta team would love to run against in November.2022 May 19, George Skelton, “California attorney general is one of few key races on the ballot. It’s worth our attention”, in Los Angeles…. From the entry full-stop
• Eugenia was the sister of Onassis’ first wife, Athina, from whom he was now divorced.2021, Olivia Williams, “Static in the swinging sixties”, in The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World’s Most Famous…. From the entry Athina
• There are speakers for whom examples like (3a) sound very unnatural (while not totally ungrammatical).2021, Mikhail Knyazev, “Inter-Speaker Variation and Construction-Specific Restrictions on Indexical Shift in Poshkart Chuvash”, in Julia…. From the entry monstrous agreement
• Heathrow has a 28% share of passengers arriving by rail, two-thirds of whom come by the Underground.2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71. From the entry underground
• Here we were supposed to meet the “extremists and terrorists” whom China was “deradicalizing.”2019, Olsi Jazexhi, “What can the Muslim world do to save the Uighurs and Islam in China?”, in Daily Sabah. From the entry Onsu
• Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN. From the entry sclera
• They were separated from the men and boys, many of whom were shot dead.2016 October 27, “Sakharov prize: Yazidi women win EU freedom prize”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2016. From the entry spoils of war
• The duovir then asks the litigants whom they wish to serve as their iudex.2016, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society. From the entry duovir

Meaning of whom

1. pronoun As the object of a verb.
2. pronoun As the object of a preposition.
3. pronoun Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.

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Questions about whom in a sentence

How do you use whom in a sentence?

Whom is used as a pronoun. For example: “Whom did you ask?”

What is a short sentence with whom?

“Whom did you ask?”

What does whom mean?

Whom means as the object of a verb.