when'll
AmericanUsage
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Example Sentences
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I said: "Yes, but when'll you be back?"
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2012
A pause and an arch look from Janie: "Well, when'll you know?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Erin says, “Coach, when’ll you be returning Finley?”
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
Pondering upon them, he was disturbed by a knock that heralded a voice: "The paper you ordered, mister; and when'll you be ready for breakfast?"
From Once Aboard the Lugger by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
“If you please, Madam, when’ll you be wanting your coach, think you?”
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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