whys

Example Sentences

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"Why did no-one tell the young people to get out? Why did the council not make the proper checks? There are too many whys."

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

There were no wheres or whys to what came out of his iPad.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

You don't know the whos and the whats and the whys of how we came to be and how our relationship fell apart to get us to that point.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2024

Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

All the whos, whats, whys, whens, and wheres you never knew you needed to know, I headed out, giving the cowbell above the door a mournful clang as I left.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool