How to Use whit in a Sentence

whit

noun

• I care not a whit about what other people think.
• When the weather turns sour, the Volvo 940 doesn't care one whit.
  — Dick Kelley, Car and Driver, 27 June 2023
• These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• But the year is 1849, and Eliza’s preferences matter not a whit.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Most of these characters were set in stone four movies ago and haven’t evolved one whit.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity.com, 24 May 2017
• Koresh and his followers cared not a whit what the rest of the world thought and believed.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
• Your children will not care one whit about your one-in-a-billion love affair.
  — Ask Amy, al, 29 May 2019
• Business leaders who have one whit of sense about them know better.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2020
• Not a white man of privilege, but a whit man nonetheless.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Feb. 2018
• Bubba loves her deeply, admires her just as much, and understands her not a whit.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
• To whit: The draconian Republican health-care bill has gone down in flames for the third time!
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2017
• This census might even reveal a few who don't care a whit about the city's professional sports teams.
  — David Isaacson, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
• Hank Aaron’s legacy as a player is not diminished one whit by the fact that his name is no longer atop a list of names and numbers.
  — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• This virus doesn’t care a whit about my politics or my religion.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 27 May 2020
• The elites don't care — not one whit — about America's school system and schoolchildren. ...
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2018
• This doesn’t detract a whit from its heart-breaking poignancy and the storm of emotions that leaves half the audience sobbing by the final scenes.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
• Many folk, less deserving than Stoppard, and with scarcely a whit of his charm, are greeted with godsends.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• The shelter for homeless men with substance abuse issues shows its age, but that matters not a whit to the 60-odd men seated on a hodgepodge of chairs in the concrete building.
  — Holly Haber, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
• The fact that both Trump and Biden have major bipartisan accomplishments to their names matters not a whit.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• Today's driver-assistance systems don't care one whit about the tires, which is a mistake, Bridgestone says.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 8 Jan. 2020
• This has not changed, a whit, since the talking heads here and there have lost their collective minds, worrying about an American strike on North Korea.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 15 Apr. 2017
• And the consensus among the political class is that nothing anyone says now matters a whit until after the midterms.
  — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 8 May 2017
• The state has been built on promises of an eternal present, on blithe and deliberate disregard for the past so as not to have to learn from it—on a refusal to give a single naked whit about the future.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2020
• One of the original film's greatest strengths was that Harrelson, Eisenberg, Stone, and Breslin all had such great on-screen chemistry, and the past decade hasn't diminished that one whit.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• But Hernández’s location at the precise moment the bullet landed should not matter one whit.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• The Reagan and Obama teams were courteous and respectful, but in the initial period, the views of civil servants sometimes didn’t matter a whit.
  — Cass R. Sunstein, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2017
• For his part, Medina Spirit has not read the papers, cares not a whit about his Derby win being called into doubt and knows nothing of famous trainer’s travails.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• Not one whit, because Inception is first and foremost top-notch entertainment.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2020
• Its largely fabricated, hit-or-miss story leaves something to be desired, but, at the same time, there's so much else to recommend the film that its lack of sterling storytelling doesn't matter a whit.
  — Mike Scott, nola.com, 7 June 2019
• The immediacy this gives the character will likely endear the Netflix feature to young audiences who don’t care a whit about fealty to Austen’s novel.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024