How to Use what then in a Sentence

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• If that is the case, what then does the sequence of a variant mean?
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• And if a 10-year-old gets raped by her father or uncle, what then?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
• At one point one of the Davids wonders, what if things were different — what then?
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Everything can be fixed with the right script If Indiana Jones does flop, what then?
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• The squat three-story brick box was built for a candy manufacturer on the block between Hawthorn and Second streets, around the corner from what then was skid row.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
• You’d be forgiven for thinking that what then ensued was a battle between the artist and the memorial commission, the artist and the bureaucracy, the artist and the money.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• Bill worked with me on what then became a Thierry Mugler-meets-Gaultier-meets-Playboy bunny design.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
• Alabama shocked much of the automotive world in 1993 with what then was a whopping incentive package to land Mercedes-Benz.
  — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
• That’s what then enables these systems to generate pictures that follow users’ text inputs.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 9 May 2023
• The spinoff, aptly titled Joey, featured LeBlanc journeying to discover what then became of his beloved character.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• If the fall of insects’ tiny empires causes whole ecosystems to unravel, toppling previously solid certainties about the way our world functions, what then?
  — Oliver Milman, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
• But if that single checkbox classifies us all with this skin, what then—despite America’s history of prejudice against all racially Black people—separates us at those points of entry?
  — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2022
• Conventional dating practices might actually lead to something promising, and what then?
  — Morgan Parker, ELLE, 4 June 2022
• At the time, Millstone’s profits were eroded by competition from electricity generated by what then was plentiful and cheap natural gas, and its owner said its future was threatened without help.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024