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 Lois Bates
What soft emotion soothes me, whene'er I call to mind Thy sister's noble graces, her accent soft and kind, And how, when both were married, we both sat side by side!
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
For he was uneasy whene'er I complain'd; He call'd me his charmer, and call'd me his belle, What a folly to die on the banks of Sorel!
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
So let it be: before I lived to sigh, Thou wert in Avon, and a thousand rills, Beautiful Dian! and so whene'er I lie Trodden, thou wilt be gazing from thy hills.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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