Sentence examples for what was is from inspiring English sources

The phrase "what was is" is not grammatically correct or usable in written English.
In order to be grammatically correct, the phrase should be rephrased to "what was", "what is", or "what is was". For example: What was his opinion? What is the current situation? What is was the cost of the meal?.

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What was, is now something else".

In what was is it different from the American regard?

… To love what was is a new thing under the sun, unknown to most people and to all pigeons".

And therefore who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing, as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vitality of what will be?

Soon the Breakfast Club regulars, that gaggle of Elyrian past and present, will be here to renew their continuing discussion of what was, is and isn't in this city of 55,000.

I've plunged deep into the prison of my own mind, and the linear reality of what was is nothing but a ripple across the multiverse of what may be.

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This is what was being passed by.

What was being satirized?

Exactly what was being taught here?

What was being sought were general opinions about the concept.

What is, is.

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