Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. From LearnThat.org. [Erma Bombeck (1927-1996).]
In the conjoint relation plain whose is always used, as in whose hat is that?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun] Reference
In such a case as this, where there are well-marked classes, the term whose connotation is included in the others 'is called a Genus of that. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
So it's no surprise that the top status trend for 2010 - that is, the term whose usage in status updates grew the most this year - was "HMU.". From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Top News] Reference
Or another version of the word whose roots go back to the Indo-European for “animal hide” and whose worldwide storytelling future is assured in Global English. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
'Song,' it is a term whose sense every one understands. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
It is a term whose very purpose has been to create divisions in an already divided region. From Wordnik.com. [Trita Parsi: What Do Google and Saddam Have in Common?] Reference
It may be a title whose rights have been reverted and in which the author still has faith. From Wordnik.com. [Where's The Money] Reference
They fear their lives are “meaningless” a term whose actual intent has always escaped me. From Wordnik.com. [Conflicting Explanations for Withdrawal of Dover Experts? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I had reason to dread, as Facets is a label whose exceptional taste is trumped by its often execrable practices in DVD transferring. From Wordnik.com. [In The Company Of Glenn] Reference
By ‘Diction’ I mean the mere metrical arrangement of the words: as for ‘Song,’ it is a term whose sense every one understands. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics] Reference
Now, suppose that instead of using a term whose signification is contrary to what my mind conceives, which would be falsehood, I employ. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
It's a title whose resonance lies less in its official status than in expressing one of the most fundamental of all roles and relationships. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2002] Reference
It refers to a term whose true meaning is rarely intended when the term "creativity" is ordinarily employed in academic, or related usage today. From Wordnik.com. [LaRouche's Latest] Reference
'Undistributed' is applied both to a term whose quantity is undefined, and to one whose quantity is definitely limited to a part of its possible extent. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
With a title whose length casts an evocative tint on the music, the third entry in the Congotronics series also comes bundled with imperialist concerns. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
Those prices are especially appealing in a tough economy, said Karen Scheck, president of Lela Rose, a label whose fans include celebrities like Anne Hathaway. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Excite Truck-a title whose control scheme is quite like manuevering those little cars in mid-air-also holds a special place in my heart with a similar timelessness. From Wordnik.com. [N-Sider.com] Reference
On the positive side, Aso is one of the hardest of hard-liners on North Korea policy in Japan's mainstream, a term whose meaning Aso may have single-handedly expanded. From Wordnik.com. [One Free Korea] Reference
Unsurprisingly for a title whose circulation was likely in the double digits, we do not have any further details; possibly the title is now a macabre collector's item?. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
He would be a shyster, or that individual professionally unscrupulous in the practice of law, a term whose derivation comes, again, from the German, and the word Scheisser. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Find in 2 a phrase whose principal part is made up of three nouns. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
After a decade of delirium, globaloney is a word whose time has come. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Globaloney?] Reference
Long story short … is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
We had colonels by title whose functions were purely those of the file-closer. From Wordnik.com. [A Wounded Name] Reference
I could not then ascertain from her what was meant by the word whose meaning I had asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Savage] Reference
Nephesh is but partially a synonym for the word whose significations we have just considered. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Claret is an old-fashioned wine term whose roots go back to the British wine trade of the 1600s. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
An amendment, in short, whose sole purpose is to rub salt in open wounds and glorify the torturers. From Wordnik.com. [Pensacola Beach Blog] Reference
Lady St. Craye let herself go completely in a phrase whose memory stung and rankled for many a long day. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomplete Amorist] Reference
Like Obama being 'the messiah', - it is a phrase whose natural habitat is only in conservative phraseology. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Husbands of mine, in short, whose influence over me has, I am proud to say, set death and burial at defiance. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Genius] Reference
Tell the guests that the questions represent some kind of a rose or a word whose last syllable has the sound of rose. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
We were come to a long deep 'goyal,' as they call it on Exmoor, a word whose fountain and origin I have nothing to do with. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
One of its traditional names is Katmir, a word whose letters, it should be observed, are with one exception identical with Rakim. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
"No candidate will be accepted in English whose work is notably defective in spelling, punctuation, idiom or division into paragraphs.". From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
Wisdom, in short, whose lessons have been represented as so hard to learn by those who never were at her school, only teaches us to extend. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
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