How to use "whole" in a sentence

I plan to spend the whole of Monday biking along the White Rim Trail

That's two whole days with no sleep and very little water

I throw the whole weight of my body below the boulder

All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution - to this provision as much as to any other

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it

My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and WELL upon this whole subject

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it

I ask further, is it unconstitutional for me to say to the British Government "I refuse to serve you"? Is it unconstitutional for our worthy Chairman to return with every respect all the titles that he has ever held from the Government? Is it unconstitutional for any parent to withdraw his children from a Government or aided school? Is it unconstitutional for a lawyer to say "I shall no longer support the arm of the law so long as that arm of law is used not to raise me but to debase me"? Is it unconstitutional for a civil servant or for a judge to say, "I refuse to serve a Government which does not wish to respect the wishes of the whole people"?

I submit that in the whole plan of non-cooperation, there is nothing unconstitutional

But I do venture to suggest that it will be highly unconstitutional in the midst of this unconstitutional Government, - in the midst of a nation which has built up its magnificent constitution, - for the people of India to become weak and to crawl on their belly - it will be highly unconstitutional for the people of India to pocket every insult that is offered to them; it is highly unconstitutional for the 70 millions of Mohammedans of India to submit to a violent wrong done to their religion; it is highly unconstitutional for the whole of India to sit still and cooperate with an unjust Government which has trodden under its feet the honour of the Punjab.

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly

By 11 o'clock that morning, one reporter wrote, it seemed that the whole of the East End was 'out of doors'

Fantine spent whole nights crying

'I can feel her whole soul in it!' he told himself

They did not come for a whole week, and Marius began to feel depressed

'A whole day without seeing you! That's unbearable!'

I'm going to throw away my youth, my career, my whole life, and dive into poverty with a woman around my neck..

Minutes later, the sounds of war echoed across the whole city of Paris.

The poor man, unable to understand the kindness and gentle nature of the man he had spent his whole life hating, had taken his own life by jumping from a bridge

One evening he discovered there were no chairs in the room at all - he and Cosette had to stand in the cold for their whole meeting

It was crazy the way it did that, even after a whole year together.

And then someone had opened the door, making the whole illusion break up

Your whole body lay inside the pod and it was like your normal life was turned off

"You were thinking about it the whole time!"

"You're thinking of leaving me for two whole years and you can't see the problem?"

You learn things in a completely different way because your whole body is involved

This was how it would be, for two whole years..

And yes - there's a whole world out there

The whole way back from the earth apartment, Sala had been asking herself if it was OK to tell Cham about the rebellion

But I've been starting to wonder whether the whole thing was just a joke, or a trick, even."

The whole family went to the pod center, with Cham's mom telling his sisters to be brave, and his dad pale and quiet

A whole week of waiting, and that was it

The whole family was there - Cham's parents and both his sisters

She watched as the whole family greeted him

Sala couldn't imagine anything worse in the whole world than someone trying to harm Gran, Mom, or Apat.

Her whole body was connected now

Something happened a year ago that changed my whole life

But of course, you know the whole story.'

His whole body was shaking with fear and tears were rolling down his fat, round face.

The whole thing will be in the papers tomorrow

Two blocks from her house, intending to buy a quart of milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at a twenty-four-hour market and parked in the dry yellow drizzle of a sodium-vapor light, beside a gleaming, cream-colored Chevrolet station wagon

She bought a quart of nonfat milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread that was cut thin for dieters, so each serving contained only half the calories of an ordinary slice of bread

"Then there's 'Vegas syndrome.' Someone gets so carried away with gambling and running from show to show that he forgets to eat for a whole day or longer

A whole hell of a lot of gloom.

And I'll be happy because the whole stunt will generate more talk about the show."

He seemed to know that she had to go through the whole story to get it off her mind.

"And we reopened the grave only two months after the funeral, not a whole year later

I can't take a whole lot of credit for that

"Were you with him the whole time?"

Maybe he's still on the payroll of some spook shop, and maybe the whole plan was for him to pretend to retire and then get elected as a judge here in Vegas, so his bosses would have a friendly courtroom in town."

But if we go to the press in Los Angeles or New York or some other city, the reporters there aren't going to have a whole lot of interest in it unless they see an aspect of the story that lifts it out of the local-interest category

Killing all those people and trying to fake an accident - that was a whole lot riskier than letting the kids come back with their half-baked stories about seeing something peculiar in the mountains."

"Besides," Elliot said, "Kennebeck probably doesn't know the whole story

A group had gone down a while ago and would be returning for their last stand at the tables before a whole new staff came on duty with the shift change

The whole family was nothing but a bunch of hypocrites

Scrub away the whole trail." He reached for the phone.

Risky as it might be to express doubt to any colleague on the project, Dombey could not control himself: "Clean? This whole thing was never clean

That doesn't help us a whole hell of a lot

A whole new series."

I knew this whole business was too dirty to end any way but disaster." He sighed, as if a great weight had been lifted from him

The whole Danny Evans project is the work of a few megalomaniacs."

'I have a strange feeling that this business with the flies holds the answer to the whole mystery, Monsieur Delambre,' he said.

I only saw him the next morning, tired after a whole night's work.

Then he pushed a switch and the whole room was brightly lit by an orange flash of light

The whole thing lasted less than a second.

But it's a strange illness - the whole character may change after it.'

'The whole village probably knows where you keep your socks,' Then suddenly I asked, 'Was the pistol loaded?'

He was walking up and down, and his whole body was shaking.

So the two policemen heard the whole conversation

The whole creature was breathing heavily

By midnight the burning trees along the slopes of Richmond Hill lit up clouds of Black Smoke which covered the whole valley of the Thames, and went as far as the eye could see.

It seemed that the whole population of London was moving north

If the Martians had only wanted destruction, they could have killed the whole population of London on Monday, as it moved out slowly through the neighboring countryside

The whole scene was one of moving lights and shadows, difficult for the eyes

Who wants a whole week of seasickness? You leave on Monday and you're feeling well

The whole idea is stupid.'

When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it

She could not discuss the whole business with Mercy, and James always took Mercy's side

My one hope now was to prove Laura's identity, but Mr Kyrle, having heard the whole story, said that it would be impossible