Used in a Sentence

whenever

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for whenever.

Editorial note

By default, after the initial lecturing, if you see something interesting you can go explore it whenever you want.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

At any time.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of whenever gathered in one view.

adverb

At any time.

adverb

(interrogative) When ever: emphatic form of when.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for whenever.

adverb

At any time.

adverb

(interrogative) When ever: emphatic form of when.

Example sentences

1

By default, after the initial lecturing, if you see something interesting you can go explore it whenever you want.

2

People think they should be able to rent out their apartment whenever they want.

3

The iPod/iPhone gives me thumb fatigue whenever I have to scroll repeatedly to read a long web page.

4

But whenever I see a post like yours, I see a lack of creativity and human contact.

5

The problem is whenever an attractive male engineer is on an ad, people say they're advertising to engineers which happen to be mostly men; and whenever an attractive female engineer is on an ad, people say they're advertising for men which happen to be mostly engineers.

6

Old 'conservative' people decrying taxes and welfare yet exploiting it as much as possible for themselves, and organizing in force whenever it is threatened.

7

I find that the delete link is really useful whenever I succumb to the urge.

8

Once the shares are sold, the company no longer owns them, so whatever happens, happens, just like whenever you sell anything else.

9

It happens at least once a month, whenever I start looking for new jobs.

10

My first thought whenever I see soylent is that we have studies proving that we can't replace breast milk with baby formula.

11

So, whenever I find something that's interesting to me, I post it here.

12

I remember pulling the 16 color trick in high school on the old original IBM PC's, but our CGA cards displayed a TON of snow whenever I updated the characters.

Quote examples

1

Whenever someone question those things, the answer is "But it's better than junk food".

2

Personally, I cringe whenever I read a job advert mentioning that the candidate will "push to production on day one".

3

Whenever I need to return a non-const reference/pointer to some inner data (which is not often) I name the method "mutableFoo()" to make clear what you're getting.

4

Whenever I ask, "is it ok for those sites to block you if you are running adblock" usually people say "no, they need to find a different business model!".

Proper noun examples

1

Whenever some employer complains they can't find engineers, ask how many people they have in off-site training right now.

2

Whenever someone asks for a fifth round of changes for a button's color, I think about a Japanese monk raking gravel.

3

Whenever something peaks my interest I write it up.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use whenever in a sentence?

By default, after the initial lecturing, if you see something interesting you can go explore it whenever you want.

What does whenever mean?

At any time.

What part of speech is whenever?

whenever is commonly used as adverb.