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whole

Whole is used to describe every part of an object. I ate the whole meal, leaving nothing left.

whole

The whole of something means the entire part of it. The whole of the Middle East is pretty messy at the moment.

whole

including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete gave his whole attention a whole wardrobe for the tropics the whole hog a whole week the baby cried the whole trip home a whole loaf of bread all of something including all its component elements or parts Europe considered as a whole the whole of American literature (= wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly') he was wholly convinced entirely satisfied with the meal it was completely different from what we expected was completely at fault a totally new situation the directions were all wrong it was not altogether her fault an altogether new approach a whole new idea (= unit) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity how big is that part compared to the whole? the team is a unit (of siblings) having the same parents whole brothers and sisters (= hale) exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health hale and hearty whole in mind and body a whole person again (= solid) acting together as a single undiversified whole a solid voting bloc (= unharmed) not injured

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Simple sentences

I made my whole family leave home.
There is nothing like a glass of beer after a whole day's work.
The smell penetrated through the whole school.
You must study your whole life.
You must consider this problem as a whole.
I can't see her ruin her whole life.
She was unconscious for a whole day after the accident.
The river flooded the whole region.
Men are children their whole life.
The whole group was punished for Tom's mistake.
He remained silent the whole time.
Tom slept through the whole thing.
Mary needs a whole roll of toilet paper to wipe her ass clean.
It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I spent the whole afternoon chatting with friends.
You have been thinking about this problem the whole morning. Take a break; go eat lunch.
Don't you know that you are the laughingstock of the whole town?
If only you had told me the whole story at that time!
By September I will have known her for a whole year.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
On the whole, the country has a severe climate.
On the whole, the result was unsatisfactory.
The whole sky lit up and there was an explosion.
The whole neighborhood mourned his death.
The tourists painted the whole town red.
On the whole, the elite are not sensitive to criticism.
On the whole, the Japanese are conservative.
On the whole, Canada has a severe climate.

Movie subtitles

In the whole world, eating eggs in the Hot Room is the best.
Well of course we don't really have final say over where we get sent, but. I have been praying to be sent to my favorite place in the whole world.
This whole country is gonna be SAVED!
All I have to do now is count the number of blades of grass in that little two-inch square and then multiply by the number of squares that would cover this whole field.
It was when we discovered this whole new life system on our planet.
And yet, it not only evolves and works, it thrives and has a whole ecosystem that depends on these bizarre environments.
The idea that life can emerge from a different kind of liquid is adding a whole new dimension to our search.
It's just this whole atmosphere that everything just feels like you're being watched, you know.
You always think something's there, and, like, the whole thing with the sky now.
Were you with that man for the whole night?!
If you step forward here and get beaten by them, your whole body would be beaten to pieces, so how would you handle that?
We just did a whole bunch of it So we can take a break for a while.
I've been scared my whole life.
Whole firm is counting on you.
Set the whole town ablaze!
Besides, I-I-I can't handle that whole French scene without you.
Dude, I helped you come up with this whole menu.
Cypress. The whole.
I'm in. And we get the whole afternoon off.
I'm sorry about the whole rock thing.
Like, I could literally go to any machine in this whole place and win in, like, two pulls.
I mean, you get your big, beautiful building in the city and I get to go tell a farmer who's dying that I lied and I can't help him test his water 'cause some corporate bitch is blackmailing me into dropping the whole thing.
Father was right about them the whole time.
This whole time, you've never let him out of your sight.
He detests the whole affair.
The whole town is praising his name.
In my whole life this woman was the only great, the only wonderful thing.
And the happiness of a whole house could be ruined with witch hair and metal crosses.
Look, Nick, what Johnny's doing is wrong, but the way the whole peanut trade works is even wronger.
The only way to end the cycle is to change the way the whole system works. What are you saying?
Nick, this whole thing, it's torn our crew apart.
It must be killing him. Now his whole crew is like a chicken with one of its wings cut off.
Yeah, I knew it the whole time.
The whole thing was an act.
Kids can't just play anywhere they want, because the yard is carved up into a whole bunch of, like, territories.
Me and my crew hang out at the top of the slide so I can see what's going on in the whole yard, most of which I control.
And that's what started this whole what started this whole problem.
You are the big boss man of the whole yard.
I mean, your whole crew's scared.
The whole situation is out of control.
The whole yard's on edge!

News and current affairs

On the whole, though, the public seemed to support the decision.
The whole point of restructuring was to discharge debt and make the remainder more manageable.
The EU could act as a magnet to bring the region closer together by bringing the region as a whole closer to Europe.
Does this tell us something about the future of Europe as a whole?
Indeed, the creation of a European federal government and the elimination of national intermediaries would probably lead to the greatest liberalization of the economy (and society as a whole) in Europe's entire history.
The simple fact is that Europe as a whole is too diverse to be captured by the economic and political interest groups that now dominate national states.
The whole of Germany has been celebrating a never-ending party with guests from all over the world (which was not expected).
More importantly, not only in the German team, but also in the country as a whole, a young, cool, laid-back, and carefree Germany is raising its head - a Germany that is cosmopolitan, friendly, and good-humored.
A team that is unable to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won't stand much of a chance.
First, the US labor market is failing so badly that expanded government spending carries no resource cost to society as a whole.
Europe as a whole is not in bad fiscal shape; its debt-to-GDP ratio compares favorably with that of the United States.
The lesson is obvious: the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Over the last 160 years, the GVA of finance has grown by two percentage points a year faster than that of the economy as a whole.
Large purchases would drive up prices in the secondary market, defeating the point of the whole operation.
All estimates of the possible impact of global warming suggest that a large part of the continent will become drier, and that the continent as a whole will experience greater climatic variability.
Under Arafat's long rule, whole generations of Palestinians have been indoctrinated with the belief that only total victory is acceptable.
Growing discrimination in employment, housing, and education affects not just immigrants and their children; it harms our societies as a whole.
Kings and queens, on the whole, have not.
In Afghanistan as a whole, a woman dies of pregnancy-related causes every 27 minutes - and perhaps even more frequently, because many such deaths go unrecorded.
With foreign borrowing financing a yawning trade deficit, the US economy as a whole spent more than it earned, which both caused and hid structural problems.
When you don't like a government, you can turn the rascals out without overthrowing the whole system.
Europe and Japan, indeed the whole emerging economy world, are living off America's trade deficits.

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