whene'er
Americanconjunction
adverb
Example Sentences
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I dine on rare and costly fare whene'er good fortune lets me, but there's no meal that can compare with those the missus gets me.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he has returned, all the children say: Little children, always run When your mother's voice is heard, Leave your play whene'er she calls Quickly mind her every word.
From Games Without Music for Children by Bates, Lois
She is a thief whene'er she smiles, For then she steals my heart from me, And keeps it with a maiden's wiles, And never sets it free.
From Poems by Macy, Arthur
Him may you mark in every vale Moving beneath his fleecy trail, And tell whene'er the motions die Where every town and hamlet lie.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
Robed in a silken robe that shines and shakes, She seems to dance whene'er she treads the sod, Like the long serpent that a fakir makes Dance to the waving cadence of a rod.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
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