How do you use the word "whole" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "whole" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "whole": It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Whole Meaning

/həʊl/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjEntire, undivided.

adjEntire, undivided., Used as an intensifier.

Sentence Examples

It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The scheme would cover the whole of the UK.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

unit full solid

Antonyms:

half fractional

CEFR Practice Quiz

After dinner, she ate the ____ chocolate cake by herself without sharing.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ family gathered together to celebrate their grandmother's eightieth birthday earlier this bright Sunday morning today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos Proto-Germanic *hailaz Proto-West Germanic *hail Old English hāl Middle English hol English whole From Middle English whol, hol, hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). The spelling with wh-, attested since ca. 1400, represents an excrescent /w/, which developed in words with initial /(h)ɔː/, /(h)oː/ in southwestern dialects of Middle English. While this pronunciation did not establish itself in the standard language (except in one), the spelling survived in whole and whore, in the former case likely reinforced by a desire to disambiguate from hole. Cognates Compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil; also Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy. False cognate of Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]" — 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:

"Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them." — 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

"A traveller in 1887 describes the difference between the peoples found when crossing the frontier in the Ichow prefecture. In Kiangsu he had been met by rudeness and obstruction, on his entering Shantung, at the very first village he was received with courtesy and even kindness, and he found the same feelings expressed through the whole province." — 1900 February 3 [1900 January 31], “THE STATE OF SHANTUNG.”, in Hongkong Weekly Press, volume L, number 5, sourced from Daily Press, page 71, column 1:

"“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”" — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages." — 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

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