what'd
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Example Sentences
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When people ask you where you from, what'd you say?
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024
“It’s just like … what’d I do to y’all?” he said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022
“And of course as a mother, everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what’d we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement. And I said, ‘This doesn’t make any sense,’” she told Williams.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022
No matter her productivity, her colleagues seemed to care primarily about the chitchat — what’d you do last weekend, where’d you get that purse?
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
Mr. Jimmy said, “When she was living, Bud, God rest her soul, what’d your momma look like?”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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