wherewithal

How To Use wherewithal In A Sentence

• A gusher of cash flow is giving businesses the wherewithal to increase their capital outlays.
• Luckily for them, Kilkenny did not have the wherewithal to make them pay.
• Since he lacks the financing to build, he lacks the wherewithal to complete his side of the contract.
• The film has a beautiful cast and he had the vision and the wherewithal to make it, and he made the picture look like it cost $100 million.
• Some of them vpon the necke of their launce haue an hooke, wherewithall they attempt to pull men out of their saddles. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
• THE CAPTIVE having said this, held his peace; and Don Fernando replied to him thus: ‘Truly, captain, the manner wherewithal you have recounted this marvellous success hath been such as it may be paragoned to the novelty and strangeness of the event itself. The Fourth Book. XV. Which Speaks of That Which After Befel in the Inn, and of Sundry Other Things Worthy to Be Known
• A commonly peddled myth that only the bookmakers have the contacts and wherewithal to lobby government has been discreetly disproved in recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
• She did not have the wherewithal to chase those people down, and, even if she did, she was unlikely to get recompense from them.
• A national media that, having been taken in, lacks the wherewithal to tell it like it is.
• They do not have the mental wherewithal to find their way around the modern world. Times, Sunday Times