whole works

Example Sentences

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In fact, whole works would be broken up, scrambled out of order and integrated with the other pieces.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023

It's made even easier deploying Amanda Hesser's brilliant method of cooking up the whole works on a sheet pan.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022

Our system of primaries, general elections and governance as a whole works best when multiple ideologies and approaches are allowed to vie in the marketplace of ideas.

From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2020

Writing against the grain of one’s existing beliefs or instincts or knowledge often causes a sudden surge in energy that can turn out to reframe and inform and charge whole works with surprising new power.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2018

She put the whole works in the toe of a stocking, pushed the wad into a rubber overshoe, and stood it with its fellow in the back of her closet.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck