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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whenever
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
whenever you want
▪ Joanna is happy for him to see his son whenever he wants.
where/wherever/whenever possible
▪ Choose wholemeal varieties of flour and pasta, where possible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
necessary
▪ In the meantime, we should hire such systems in whenever necessary, to familiarise staff with the technology.
▪ While only one chapter is exclusively dedicated to this issue, it is certainly raised whenever necessary to further the dialog.
▪ This of course, does not preclude parents contacting the School whenever necessary.
possible
▪ You must deal with this whenever possible, as it will be bad for you if park-keepers constantly have to do it.
▪ Also, parents should consider using the resources of the school system whenever possible.
▪ Burn against the wind whenever possible.
▪ To make ends meet, he now works as a dishwasher and kitchen helper whenever possible.
▪ Such avoidance, whenever possible without straining, would be second nature to an orator of the generation after Isokrates.
▪ Her office has directed department heads to evaluate expenses and hold off spending whenever possible.
▪ Thirdly, if further treatment is required reuse the same drug whenever possible.
▪ Treatment, whenever possible, should be directed at both disorders simultaneously.
■ VERB
use
▪ It is a helpful behaviour to use whenever you need to pick some one else's brains.
▪ This identifier was used whenever the zone to the left or to the right of the line segment being digitized was sea.
▪ A transmittal letter should be used whenever draft reports are submitted or preliminary opinions given.
▪ As much as 85 percent of cars had a radio, and over half were used whenever the car was driven.
▪ Apart from that one pitfall, surprise attacks are an excellent tactic and should be used whenever possible.
▪ He argued that either symbol was used whenever it fell more easily to the hand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whenever

Whenever \When*ev"er\, adv. & conj. At whatever time. ``Whenever that shall be.''
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whenever

late 14c., from when + ever.

Wiktionary
whenever

adv. 1 At whatever time. 2 Every time. 3 (context Irish Southern US English) when.

Wikipedia
Whenever (play)

Whenever is a 2000 children's musical play with words Alan Ayckbourn and music by Denis King, that was shown as the Stephen Joseph Theatre's Christmas production. It is loosely derived from The Wizard of Oz, and it is about a young Victorian girl named Emily to travels back and forth in time to avert a disaster.

Whenever

Whenever may refer to:

  • Whenever (play), by Alan Ayckbourn
  • "Whenever" (The Black Eyed Peas song), from the album The Beginning
  • "Whenever", song by Beth Orton from Trailer Park
Whenever (The Black Eyed Peas song)
  1. redirect The Beginning (The Black Eyed Peas album)

Category:2010 songs Category:Songs written by will.i.am Category:Songs written by Fergie (singer)

Usage examples of "whenever".

Cyador was the Accursed Forest before the founders came, and it killed either the barbarians or us whenever it could.

After two days of riding the wall, and time spent in the evening studying the ward-wall patrol manual that Maran had provided, his eyes tend to blur whenever he looks toward the chaos and whitened granite that prisons the Accursed Forest.

Whenever Nurse moved her hands, changed the position of her head, or bent her back, the afflicted complained of being bitten, pinched, and bruised.

During her brief examination, whenever Dorcas glanced at the afflicted, they said she bit them.

You are to take one of the powders, my dear, whenever you have a headache or a fever or that neuralgic affliction of your hands.

Most of all I hated the rush of intense aliveness which pumped through me like a drug whenever I speared an innocent animal and I saw the spurting of his blood as drink that would soon quicken my own.

Whenever, in a wild population, a t allele happens to arise by mutation, it immediately spreads like a brushfire.

I really do, that I, to say the most of myself, am nothing more than the peer of our friend from Randolph, I shall regard the gentleman from Coles as decidedly my superior also, and consequently, in the course of what I shall have to say, whenever I shall have occasion to allude to that gentleman, I shall endeavor to adopt that kind of court language which I understand to be due to decided superiority.

Whenever she heard news of him it would invariably involve some highly coloured account of his amatory adventures, for he appeared to have become a thorough-going rake and wastrel.

Seta would have found another place to sleep had that been possible, and he learned from Mistress Anan that the Seanchan woman put her hands over her eyes whenever Joline or Edesina was teaching Bethamin in the wagon.

These articles appeared here and there, whenever possible, in some little sheet of advanced literary and anarchistic views, in which violent attacks on persons took the place of a reasoned-out campaign against the order of things.

It will probably be a while before The Angst lifts -- but whenever it happens I will get out of bed again and start writing the mean, cold-blooded bummer that I was not quite ready for today.

But since she accepted him as a harmless antiquarian, she also removed her habit coat whenever the work made her hot.

Though these modes can be appropriately used only occasionally, nevertheless they are of great value to the reader, and the voice should be trained to assume them whenever necessary.

Her artlessness, her vivacity, her eager curiosity, and the bashful blushes which spread over her face whenever her innocent or jesting remarks caused me to laugh, everything, in fact, convinced me that she was an angel destined to become the victim of the first libertine who would undertake to seduce her.