When
[wen] or [wɛn]
Definition
(adv.) At what time; -- used interrogatively.
(adv.) At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.
(adv.) While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds.
(adv.) Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.
Typist: Miguel
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. At the time, at the time that.[2]. Whenever, at what time.
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Examples
- It was already dark when we reached it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But when she went away, he relapsed under the misery of his dissolution. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When to-morrow comes, and he knows that I am in the house, do you think---- She stopped again, and looked at me very earnestly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was not good for him to talk too much, and when he was silent, we were silent too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He tried to look knowing over the Latin grammar when little Rawdon showed him what part of that work he was in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For what does reason discover, when it pronounces any action vicious? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Often, indeed, when pressed by Hortense to come, she would refuse, because Robert did not second, or but slightly seconded the request. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had not read far when he rested his head upon his two hands--to hide his face from me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When that man was a boy, he went to Westminster School. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But when they came to the town into Frances Street, the girl stopped a minute, and said, 'Yo'll not forget yo're to come and see us. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When the iron parts with its carbon it loses its fluidity and becomes plastic and coherent, and is formed into balls called _blooms_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mr. Bell quite startled me when he said, some idea of the kind--' 'Mr. Bell! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And he had hardly looked up, to see what the matter was, when he was stopped by having a pair of arms thrown tight round his neck. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The exultation and joy of the Pickwickians knew no bounds, when their patience and assiduity, their washing and scraping, were crowned with success. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When are you to see him again? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He's good enough for the occasion: when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man--they only want a vote. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When the buzzard was put away--he burSt. We will except the buzzard then. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The weight of old Sabor was immense, and when she braced her huge paws nothing less than Tantor, the elephant, himself, could have budged her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Difficulties arise when we try to apply this wisdom in the present. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My heart turns faint, my mind sinks in darkness and confusion when I think of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When I spoke again I was composed enough to treat his impertinence with the silent contempt that it deserved. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A hob was the flat part of the open hearth where water and spirits were warmed; and the small table, at which people sat when so engaged, was called a nob. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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